R. A. Cairns C. N. Lashmoredavies R. O. Dendy B. M. Harvey R. J. Hastie et al.
The inclusion of the variation of the equilibrium magnetic field across the Larmor orbits of the resonant particles is crucial for a self-consistent treatment of cyclotron resonance in plasmas. Two contrasting nonrelativistic self-consistent calculations [T. M. Antonsen and W. M. Manheimer, Phys. Fluids 21,2295 (1978); C. N. Lashmore-Davies and R. …
PublishedNathan Mattor
In this paper, a theory of toroidal ion temperature gradient-driven weak turbulence near the threshold is presented. The model considers gyrokinetic ions and adiabatic electrons in toroidal geometry. The linear theory considers modes generally not considered in toroidal theories. The instability is saturated via nonlinear ion resonance, andit is sh…
PublishedL. M. Lea A. J. T. Holmes M. F. Thornton G. O. R. Naylor
When a suitable accelerating voltage is applied to extract negative ions from a volume production source, electrons are also extracted. If no means of suppression is utilized, the electron current in a hydrogen plasma would typically be of the order of 80-100 times the negative-ion current. In the accelerator designs in use at Culham Laboratory, el…
PublishedAndrew J. T. Holmes
The large size of future, and possibly present day, tokamaks requires high neutral atom beam energies for current drive and heating. These injectors must also have a high electrical efficiency and this can be achieved using negative ion sources to create the beam. These large tokamaks, such as ITER or NET require a neutral beam power of around 50-1…
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