Radio frequency wave experiments on the MST reversed field pinch

Journal Article · Mon Sep 20 00:00:00 EDT 1999 · AIP Conference Proceedings

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.59737· OSTI ID:20216690

Forest, C B ^[1]; Chattopadhyay, P K ^[1]; Nornberg, M D ^[1]; Prager, S C ^[1]; Thomas, M A ^[1]; Uchimoto, E ^[2]; Smirnov, A P ^[3]; Harvey, R W ^[4]; Ram, A K ^[5]

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1. Physics Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706 (United States)
2. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Montana, Missoula, Montana 59812 (United States)
3. Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia (Russian Federation)
4. CompX, Del Mar, California 92014 (United States)
5. Plasma Fusion Center, MIT, 167 Albany St., Cambridge Massachusetts 02139 (United States)

Whether there is a self-consistent path from poor confinement to greatly improved confinement through current profile modification is an issue for future experiments to address if and only if near term experiments can demonstrate: (1) coupling to and the propagation of rf waves in RFP plasmas, (2) efficient current drive, and (3) control of the power deposition which will make it possible to control the current profile. In this paper, modeling results and experimental plans are presented for two rf experiments which have the potential of satisfying these three goals: high-n{sub (parallel} {sub sign)} lower hybrid (LH) waves and electron Bernstein waves (EBWs). (c) 1999 American Institute of Physics.

• OSTI ID: 20216690
• Journal Information: AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 485, Issue 1; Other Information: PBD: 20 Sep 1999; ISSN 0094-243X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY
HIGH-FREQUENCY HEATING
ELECTRON CYCLOTRON-RESONANCE
PLASMA INSTABILITY
PLASMA SIMULATION
DISPERSION RELATIONS
BERNSTEIN MODE