Experimental study of plasma properties in the shadow of the T--10 mushroom limiter
The plasma properties in the shadow of a mushroom-shaped limiter installed in a lower port of the tokamak have been studied. A study of the asymmetry of the plasma streams on the ion and electron sides of the limiter leads to the conclusion that there are two mechanisms for the occurrence of the asymmetry: the toroidal rotation of the plasma and a predominant escape of plasma to the wall through the outer part of the torus. The asymmetry observed in the plasma floating potentials near the limiter leads to the flow of a current close to the Spitzer value j/sub S/ through the limiter. With increasing plasma density, the plasma density in the channels of the limiter increases, and the temperature of this plasma decreases, so the loss of charged particles to the limiter depends only weakly on the average density. This circumstance is related to the degradation of the plasma confinement with decreasing density. The total flux of charged particles to the limiter is comparable to the flux of these particles out of the plasma column. The plasma stream into the channels is approximately ambipolar, and the power levels drawn by the neutralization plate are on the order of 10j/sub S/T/sub e//e. The behavior of the neutral gas pressure in the volume near the limiter as a function of the plasma streams into the channels is nonlinear. The maximum pressure is 3x10/sup -2/ torr.
- Research Organization:
- I. V. Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow; Energiya Scientific-Industrial Alliance
- OSTI ID:
- 6789865
- Journal Information:
- Sov. J. Plasma Phys. (Engl. Transl.); (United States), Vol. 14:4
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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