DENSITY-FLUCTUATIONS IN THE ADVANCED TOROIDAL FACILITY (ATF) TORSATRON

MG SHATS,JH HARRIS,JB WILGEN,LR BAYLOR,JD BELL,CH MA,M MURAKAMI,TS BIGELOW,GL BELL,RJ COLCHIN, RA DORY,JL DUNLAP, GR DYER,AC ENGLAND,GR HANSON, DP HUTCHINSON,RC ISLER,TC JERNIGAN,RA LANGLEY,DK LEE,JF LYON, AL QUALLS,DA RASMUSSEN, RK RICHARDS,MJ SALTMARSH,JE SIMPKINS, KL VANDERSLUIS, KM LIKIN, KA SARKSYAN, SC ACETO, JJ ZIELINSKI

Fusion Technology(1995)

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Abstract
Density fluctuations in low-collisionality, low-beta (beta similar to 0.1%), currentless plasmas produced with electron cyclotron heating (ECH) in the Advanced Toroidal Facility (ATE) torsatron have been studied using a 2-mm microwave scattering diagnostic. Pulsed gas puffing is used to produce transient steepening of the density profile from its typically flat shape; this leads to growth in the density fluctuations when the temperature and density gradients both point in the same direction in the confinement region. The wave number spectra of the fluctuations that appear during this perturbation have a maximum at higher k(p)erpendicular to rho(s) (similar to 1) than is typically seen in tokamaks. The in-out asymmetry of the fluctuations along the major radius correlates with the distribution of confined trapped particles expected for the ATF magnetic field geometry. During the perturbation, the relative level of the density fluctuations in the confinement region (integrated over normalized minor radii rho from 0,5 to 0.85) increases from (n) over tilde/n similar to 1% when the density profile is net to (n) over tilde/n similar to 3% when the density profile is steepened. These observations are in qualitative agreement with theoretical expectations for helical dissipative trapped-electron modes (DTEMs), which are drift-wave instabilities associated with particle trapping in the helical stellarator field.
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electron density,magnetic field,plasma physics,electron temperature
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