High-power ion-cyclotron-resonance heating in the Wisconsin Levitated Octupole

Technical Report · Sun May 01 04:00:00 EDT 1983

OSTI ID:5589328

Fortgang, C M

Ion cyclotron resonance heating has been investigated, both experimentally and theoretically, on the Wisconsin Levitated Octupole. Heating of both ions and electrons has been observed. Typically, a two component ion energy distribution is produced (300 eV and 50 eV) with the application of 500 kW of rf power into a 5 x 10/sup 12/ cm/sup -3/ density plasma. Power is coupled to the plasma with an antenna that also serves as the inductor of an oscillator tank circuit. The oscillator is tunable from 1 to 3 MHz and can be applied for periods up to 10 msec. The experiments were performed with hydrogen, gun injected plasmas.

• Research Organization: Wisconsin Univ., Madison (USA). Dept. of Physics
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-76ET53051
• OSTI ID: 5589328
• Report Number(s): DOE/ET/53051-56; ON: DE83016154
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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