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- Title
First Results Obtained with a Sweeping Pulsed Radar Reflectometer in the Globus-M Tokamak.
- Authors
Azizov, E. A.; Babarykin, A. V.; Voronin, A. V.; Gusev, V. K.; Malyshev, A. Yu.; Markov, V. K.; Petrov, A. A.; Petrov, V. G.; Petrov, Yu. V.; Rozhdestvenskiı, V. V.; Sakharov, N. V.
- Abstract
A sweeping pulsed radar reflectometer designed for measuring the spatial electron density distribution in the Globus-M spherical tokamak with a minor plasma radius of a = 24 cm, a major radius of R = 36 cm, a toroidal field of BT = 0.5 T, a plasma current of Ip = 200 kA, and an average density of n = (3–10) ×1013cm–3 is described. The reflectometer operation is based on the reflection of microwaves with a carrier frequency f from a plasma layer with the critical density n = (0.0111 f )2, where n is the electron density in units of 1014cm–3 and f is the microwave frequency in GHz. By simultaneously probing the plasma at different frequencies, it is possible to recover the electron density profile. Microwave pulses with different frequencies are obtained by frequency sweeping. To increase the range of measured densities, channels with fixed frequencies are also used; as a result, the instrument has eleven frequency channels: a 19.5-GHz channel, eight channels in the 26- to 40-GHz frequency range, a 51.5-GHz channel, and a 60-GHz channel, which corresponds to eleven points in the density profile: 0.47×1013cm–3, eight points in the (0.8–1.95) ×1013-cm–3 range, 3.27×1013cm–3, and 4.5×1013cm–3. The reflectometer allows detailed measurements of the density profile with a time resolution of several tens of microseconds, which can be useful, in particular, in studying the processes related to the formation of an internal transport barrier in plasma. The first results obtained using this reflectometer in the Globus-M tokamak under various operating conditions are discussed. © 2004 MAIK “Nauka / Interperiodica”.
- Subjects
TOKAMAKS; ELECTRON distribution; PLASMA gases; PLASMA diagnostics; MICROWAVE plasmas; MICROWAVES
- Publication
Plasma Physics Reports, 2004, Vol 30, Issue 5, p422
- ISSN
1063-780X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1134/1.1744951