Excitação de ondas de helicon e de Alfvén em tokamak TCABR / Excitation of Helicon and Alfvén waves in tokamak TCABR

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IBICT - Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

04/04/2011

RESUMO

The objective of this work is to investigate the excitation of waves in a plasma using an antenna and to analyse the Alfvén resonances found. The Alfvén antenna heating system of the TCABR tokamak was designed to heat the plasma due to resonances. As the diodes of the toroidal field had burned down we used cleaning discharges, with low toroidal magnetic field, to test the excitation method and the identification of plasma resonances. With the demodulator circuit we measured helicon waves excited with the Alfv en antenna in the cleaning plasma using Langmuir and magnetic probes. With computational simulation we found the measured waves. A generator of variable frequency was used in this experiment. Both equipments are prepared for future experiments with the typical plasma of the TCABR, which has higher density than the cleaning plasma. This work was aimed to test to the demodulator circuit and the variable frequency generator, the data obtained were compared to that of a high sampling frequency oscilloscope. It is presented the description of the TCABR equipments used, antenna, magnetic probe, variable frequency generator of low power, demodulator circuit, Langmuir probe and a reflectometer which has a high sampling frequency (200MHZ) and frequency scanning in the range 18 40GHz, and was built in Portugal. In order to have a model of Alfv en resonances we calculated the plasma dieletric tensor both in the kinetic and magnetohydrodynamic limits. With computational simulation and using a two uid model, protons and electrons, it is possible to find some of the excited waves in the plasma and its dispersion relation, we calculated the fast magnetosonic wave and the global Alfvén wave. We found the radial position of the electromagnetic fields in the plasma. With the re ectometer we measured resonances of Alfvén waves induced by the antenna at the plasma border in a typical TCABR tokamak plasma discharge, with higher density and a high power fixed frequency generator. We used sidebands as a method to find out the resonances in the reflectometer data. These sidebands are localized around the resonance frequency, which is the Alfvén wave generator frequency. The sidebands were analysed with spectrograms of the data. The waves excited at the plasma border were also found in the simulation. The analysis results show that we could detect the plasma waves excited with the antennas. The demodulator circuit along with magnetic probes and the reflectometer can be used to find plasma resonances.

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alfvén waves física de plasma fusão nuclear nuclear fusion ondas de alfvém plasma physics

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