The Cadarache negative ion experiments
- Association Euratom--CEA, St. Paul lez Durance (France). CE Cadarache
- Budker Inst., Novosibirsk (Russian Federation); and others
Up to energies of 140 keV neutral beam injection (NBI) based on positive ions has proven to be a reliable and flexible plasma heating method and has provided major contributions to most of the important experiments on virtually all large tokamaks around the world. As a candidate for additional heating and current drive on next step fusion machines (ITER ao) it is hoped that NBI can be equally successful. The ITER NBI parameters of 1 MeV, 50 MW D{degree} demand primary D{sup {minus}} beams with current densities of at least 15 mA/cm{sup 2}. Although considerable progress has been made in the area of negative ion production and acceleration the high demands still require substantial and urgent development. Regarding negative ion production Cs seeded plasma sources lead the way. Adding a small amount of Cs to the discharge (Cs seeding) not only increases the negative ion yield by a factor 3--5 but also has the advantage that the discharge can be run at lower pressures. This is beneficial for the reduction of stripping losses in the accelerator. Multi-ampere negative ion production in a large plasma source is studied in the MANTIS experiment. Acceleration and neutralization at ITER relevant parameters is the objective of the 1 MV SINGAP experiment.
- OSTI ID:
- 505897
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-950905--; ISBN 0-7803-2970-8
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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