TY - JOUR
T1 - Toroidal plasma current startup and sustainment by rf in the WT-2 tokamak
AU - Kubo, S.
AU - Nakamura, M.
AU - Cho, T.
AU - Nakao, S.
AU - Shimozuma, T.
AU - Ando, A.
AU - Ogura, K.
AU - Maekawa, T.
AU - Terumichi, Y.
AU - Tanaka, S.
PY - 1983
Y1 - 1983
N2 - By injecting the lower hybrid wave 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 Ip5 kA, and sustained by rf power alone, without the Ohmic heating power (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 - By injecting the lower hybrid wave 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 Ip5 kA, and sustained by rf power alone, without the Ohmic heating power (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 - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.50.1994
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.50.1994
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0001394152
SN - 0031-9007
VL - 50
SP - 1994
EP - 1997
JO - Physical Review Letters
JF - Physical Review Letters
IS - 25
ER -