TY - JOUR
T1 - Toroidal Plasma Current Start-Up and Sustainment by rf in the WT-2 Toroidal Device
AU - Kubo, Shin
AU - Cho, Teruji
AU - Nakamura, Masahiko
AU - Nakao, Shuji
AU - Shimozuma, Takashi
AU - Ando, Akira
AU - Ogura, Kazuo
AU - Maekawa, Takashi
AU - Terumichi, Yasushi
AU - Tanaka, Shigetoshi
PY - 1984
Y1 - 1984
N2 - When rf power in the range of lower hybrid frequency was injected into the microwave discharge plasma at the electron cyclotron resonance in the WT-2 toroidal device, the toroidal plasma current is generated, started up to Ip~5KA, and sustained by rf power alone, without the Ohmic heating power (so-called rf tokamak). This lower-hybrid-wave driven current is produced only when high-energy tail electrons, which interact resonantly with the lower hybrid wave, are present in the initial electron cyclotron resonance plasma.
AB - When rf power in the range of lower hybrid frequency was injected into the microwave discharge plasma at the electron cyclotron resonance in the WT-2 toroidal device, the toroidal plasma current is generated, started up to Ip~5KA, and sustained by rf power alone, without the Ohmic heating power (so-called rf tokamak). This lower-hybrid-wave driven current is produced only when high-energy tail electrons, which interact resonantly with the lower hybrid wave, are present in the initial electron cyclotron resonance plasma.
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U2 - 10.1143/JPSJ.53.1047
DO - 10.1143/JPSJ.53.1047
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0021388018
SN - 0031-9015
VL - 53
SP - 1047
EP - 1057
JO - Journal of the Physical Society of Japan
JF - Journal of the Physical Society of Japan
IS - 3
ER -