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Bin CHEN, Yubao ZHU, Qing ZHOU, Jiangbo DING, Xianming SONG, Shaodong SONG, Yuanming YANG, Xin ZHAO, Enwu YANG, Minsheng LIU, the EXL-50 Team. Microwave preionization and electron cyclotron resonance plasma current startup in the EXL-50 spherical tokamak[J]. Plasma Science and Technology, 2022, 24(1): 015104. DOI: 10.1088/2058-6272/ac3640
Citation: Bin CHEN, Yubao ZHU, Qing ZHOU, Jiangbo DING, Xianming SONG, Shaodong SONG, Yuanming YANG, Xin ZHAO, Enwu YANG, Minsheng LIU, the EXL-50 Team. Microwave preionization and electron cyclotron resonance plasma current startup in the EXL-50 spherical tokamak[J]. Plasma Science and Technology, 2022, 24(1): 015104. DOI: 10.1088/2058-6272/ac3640

Microwave preionization and electron cyclotron resonance plasma current startup in the EXL-50 spherical tokamak

  • Preionization has been widely employed to create initial plasma and help the toroidal plasma current formation. This research focuses on implementing a simple, economical and practical electron cyclotron resonance (ECR) preionization technique on the newly constructed EXL-50 spherical tokamak, and evaluating the effectiveness on improving the plasma current startup. Two types ECR microwave preionization experiments for the plasma initialization without the central solenoid are reported: (1) 2.45 GHz microwave preionization and current startup with 2.45 GHz ECR source; (2) 2.45 GHz microwave preionization and current startup with 28 GHz ECR source. Application of the 2.45 GHz ECR microwave preionization to the experiments has contributed to (1) getting rid of the plasma breakdown delay; (2) the significant improvement of the discharge quality: the discharge is much longer and more stable while the driven plasma current is larger, compared to the discharge without preionization.
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