Spectroscopic study of turbulent heating in the high beta tokamak - Torus II

Technical Report · Mon Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1979

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/5610944· OSTI ID:5610944

Georgiou, G. E.

Visible spectroscopy, involving line profile and line intensity measurements, was used to study the turbulent heating of the rectangular cross-section high-beta tokamak Torus II. The spectroscopy was done in the visible wave-length region using a six channel polychrometer having 0.2 A resolution, which is capable of radial scans of the plasma. The plasma, obtained by ionizing helium, is heated by poloidal skin currents, induced by a rapid (tau/sub R/ approx. = 1.7 ..mu..sec) change of the toroidal magnetic field either parallel or anti-parallel to the initial toroidal bias magnetic field, which converts a cold toroidal Z-pinch plasma into a hot tokamak plasma.

• Research Organization: Columbia Univ., New York (USA). Plasma Lab.
• DOE Contract Number: EY-76-S-02-2456
• OSTI ID: 5610944
• Report Number(s): COO-2456-70
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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CLOSED PLASMA DEVICES
CRYOGENIC FLUIDS
ELEMENTS
EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY
FLUIDS
HEATING
HELIUM
HIGH-BETA PLASMA
IMPURITIES
ION TEMPERATURE
NONMETALS
PLASMA
PLASMA DIAGNOSTICS
PLASMA HEATING
RARE GASES
SPECTROSCOPY
THERMONUCLEAR DEVICES
TOKAMAK DEVICES
TURBULENT HEATING