A DUAL HEAVY ION BEAM PROBE DIAGNOSTIC ON THE TJ-II STELLARATOR

The aim of the report is to show the development of HIBP diagnostics on the TJ-II stellarator and, as a result, the expansion of the range of plasma parameters measurements. The first Heavy Ion Beam Probe (HIBP-1) diagnostic is being used on TJ-II stellarator since 2000. It has been shown significant progress in the measurements of plasma profiles and oscillations. The second HIBP-2 system was installed on TJ-II in 2012. Dual HIBP system, consisting of two identical HIBP-1 and HIBP-2 located 1/4 torus apart, provides the measurement of the long-range correlations of plasma parameters in the full plasma column. Low noise high gain (10(7) V/A) preamplifiers with 1 MHz bandwidth sampling is used. They allow to study broadband turbulence and quasi-coherent modes like geodesic acoustic modes, Alfven eigenmodes, suprathermal electron induced modes, etc. New capabilities of the dual HIBP diagnostic in plasma potential and density investigations were demonstrated on TJ-II stellarator in the measurements of the correlation between fluctuations in different poloidal and toroidal locations: on the same field line, on the same magnetic surface or on different magnetic surfaces at different points, separated toroidally and/or poloidally. PACS: 52.70.Nc