Lower hybrid geometrical resonance in linear LISA machine

Rapozo, C. da C.; Silva, J C X da; Assis, A. S. de; Honda, Roberto Yzumi; Silva, H R T; Sakanaka, P. H.

doi:10.1088/0741-3335/30/9/008

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“…Furthermore, since the present research on the lower hybrid heating in magnetic mirror devices was done a long time ago, in the relatively modest mirror devices LISA [15,16] and the Wisconsin canted-mirror [17], specific problems remain unclear in modern mirror devices where the plasma and source parameters are much more substantial. For example, as the increment of plasma temperature and source power, the nonlinear stochastic heating mechanism might be dominated.…”

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Structure-preserving particle-in-cell simulation of lower hybrid wave propagation and heating in the magnetic mirror

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This study presents the first-principle, structure-preserving electromagnetic particle-in-cell simulation of the lower hybrid wave (LHW) in magnetic mirror-confined plasmas. The behavior of LHW propagation and ion heating is studied and compared with the ray-tracing results. Two full-wave effects of LHW propagation in the mirror devices, the rotation of LHW and tunnel effects near the resonance, are revealed and discussed. Meanwhile, the ion heating near the resonance layer is presented. We first provide the spatial profile of energy deposition in 3D space and conduct a long-term simulation that shows an up to 150% ion temperature increment and a maximal ion temperature of over 1.5 keV in the hot spot at the end. In addition, we further discuss the heating mechanism and elucidate the stochastic ion heating behavior in such a regime. The onset and advantages of such a heating mechanism in terms of the magnetic mirror are also discussed. The results proved the reliability and effectiveness of lower hybrid stochastic heating in mirror devices.

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Structure-preserving particle-in-cell simulation of lower hybrid wave propagation and heating in the magnetic mirror

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The negative r.f. conductance of the sheath in a low density plasma

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Rapozo

1991

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In this work we use nonlinear sheath capacitance properties in low density plasma to produce parametric amplification of an r.f. signal in the high frequency band (H.F.).The experiment has been carried out in the linear mirror device LISA of the Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), where a helium plasma was produced by a radio-frequency source of 30 MHz with a power which can be varied from 10 watts to 100 watts.The experimental results show a r.f. signal amplification at 5 MHz with a transducer gain of 5.7. It shows good agreement with the theoretical results of a classical analysis of parametric amplification with a nonlinear device.

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Electron-cyclotron heating and associated parallel cooling

1990

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We have observed experimentally that during electron-cyclotron heating the electron longitudinal temperature drops as the perpendicular temperature increases. The experiment was carried out in a linear mirror machine with a low-density (10' cm ') weakly ionized (~1.0%) plasma.It has been shown numerically by Busnardo-Neto, Dawson, Kamimura, and Lin' and later analytically using quasilinear theory by Arunasalam that during ioncyclotron heating the increase in the perpendicular ion temperature is associated with a decrease in the parallel ion temperature. Since there is no reason to believe that this does not also work for electrons, we may think that the same effect would occur during electron-cyclotron heating and, indeed, there are recent reports in the literature to this effect. ' It should also be mentioned that if in fact this effect occurs, then the electron-cyclotron current drive picture in tokamaks should be changed, since the cooling would change both the collision frequency and the density of the trapped particles in the banana orbits of tokamak. To the best of our knowledge these effects have not been investigated yet and this is the subject of future work.The main purpose of this article is to show that parallel cooling occurs for electrons during electron-cyclotron heating with the anisotropy in the temperature reaching a maximum of r, /T, = 1.55. The experiment was carried 'll out on LISA, a linear mirror machine now operating at Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF) ( Table I and Fig. 1). This machine is 2.55 m long with an internal diameter of 0.17 m and it has a 1-m-long central section where the magnetic field is uniform (within 2%%uo). More details on the machine can be found elsewhere. For the experiments described here the dc current in the field coils was finely controlled so that the magnetic field Parameter Value Total length L Inner radius a Uniform magnetic field B Mirror region B Extension of the uniform magnetic field Electron density n, Electron temperature T, Ion temperature T; 255 cm 8.5 cm 10.5 kG 13.0 kG 100 cm 10' cm 80 eV 10 eV TABLE I. Summary of the basic LISA and target plasma parameters.varied from 150 to 1150 G in steps of 10 G, except for two points where a change of range in the control switch occurred. The diamagnetic effects are not very important because they are only of the order of 1.5 G. A Hall probe was used for careful measurements of the field which were later confirmed by means of a small magnetic probe used with a small ac current superimposed on the main dc current of the field coils. The helium plasma was produced by a microwave generator, which produces a power of 800 W at a frequency of 2.45 GHz, at 10 torr filling pressure with a background pressure of 10 torr, and the wave is injected through a rectangular waveguide at the side where there is a dip in the dc magnetic field (Fig. 1). The electron density n, and the parallel temperature T, were measured with a small planar Langmuir probe. The average electron temperature ( T, ) was measured spectroscopica11...

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Lower hybrid geometrical resonance in linear LISA machine

Cited by 8 publications

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Structure-preserving particle-in-cell simulation of lower hybrid wave propagation and heating in the magnetic mirror

Structure-preserving particle-in-cell simulation of lower hybrid wave propagation and heating in the magnetic mirror

The negative r.f. conductance of the sheath in a low density plasma

Electron-cyclotron heating and associated parallel cooling

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