H. Tanabe T. Yamada T. Watanabe K. Gi M. Inomoto R. Imazawa M. Gryaznevich C. Michael B. Crowley N. J. Conway R. Scannell J. Harrison I. Fitzgerald A. Meakins N. Hawkes K. G. McClements T. O'Gorman C. Z. Cheng Y. Ono The MAST team
In the last three years, magnetic reconnection research in the MAST spherical tokamak achieved major progress by use of new 32 chord ion Doppler tomography, 130 channel YAG and 300 channel Ruby Thomson scattering diagnostics. In addition to the previously achieved high power plasma heating during merging, detailed full temperature profile measureme…
Preprint PublishedH. Tanabe T. Yamada T. Watanabe K. Gi K. Kadowaki M. Inomoto R. Imazawa M. Gryaznevich R. Scannell N. Conway B. Crowley K. G. McClements I. Fitzgerald C. Michael J. Harrison A. Meakins N. Hawkes T. OGorman F. Cheng Y. Ono The Mast Team
This paper describes a recent advances in merging/reconnection experiments in MAST, namely tomographic ion Doppler spectroscopy capability from 2013 which solves the problem of the absence of ion temperature profile measurement during the solenoid-less startup. Providing 32 channel line-integrated spectra from 0.25m< rtangential <1.1m are con…
PreprintH. Tanabe T. Yamada T. Watanabe K. Gi K. Kadowaki M. Inomoto R. Imazawa M. Gryaznevich C. Michael B. Crowley N. J. Conway R. Scannell J. Harrison I. Fitzgerald A. Meakins N. Hawkes K. G. McClements T. OGorman C. Z. Cheng Y. Ono The MAST Team
Electron and ion heating characteristics during merging reconnection startup on the MAST spherical tokamak have been revealed in detail using 130 channel YAG- and 300 channel Ruby-Thomson scattering system and a new 32 chord ion Doppler tomography diagnostic. Detailed 2D profile measurements of electron and ion temperature together with electron de…
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