Ion heating/transport characteristics of the merging startup plasma scenario in the TS-6 spherical tokamak
H. Tanabe,
Y. Cai,
H. Tanaka
et al.
Abstract:Here we report ion heating/transport characteristics of merging startup scenario in the TS-6 spherical tokamak. In addition to the previously investigated impulsive heating process during magnetic reconnection, here we also focused on a longer time scale response of ion temperature profile both during and after merging including the semi-steady plasma confinement phase. During magnetic reconnection, (i) ion temperature profile forms poloidally asymmetric profile around the X-point at the initiation phase and (… Show more
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