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| Author(s): |
Paulo Giovane Paschoali Pereira Puglia
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Física (IF/SBI) |
| Defense date: | 2015-08-14 |
| Examining board members: |
Artour Elfimov;
Zwinglio de Oliveira Guimarães Filho;
Munemasa Machida;
José Helder Facundo Severo;
Francisco Eugenio Mendonça da Silveira
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| Advisor: | Artour Elfimov |
| Abstract | |
The goal of this study is experimental detection of global Alfvén waves in the plasma of TCABR tokamak for diagnostic. The waves are excited by the use of one or two antennas posed within the shadow of the limiter within the TCABR vessel. To excite the global Alfvén eigenmode the antennas are fed with radio-frequency current of up to $ 15$A each, in the frequency range of $ 2-4 $ MHz. The presented scheme allows us to estimate the value of the effective mass in the centre of the plasma, which has its value affected by the concentration of impurities in the plasma. The amplifier of the antenna current is based on electronically switching MOSFETs. The waves are excited in the plasma with low power, thus it does not cause perturbation of the basic plasma parameters. The variation of the resonance frequency of the global Alfvén eigenmode with density is verified. The location of the resonance is identified in the central part of the plasma due to the wave amplitude beating with sawtooth oscillations, so that the phase inversion between the beating and the sawtooth oscillation improves the accuracy of determining the resonant condition. The toroidal parity of the excited modes is determined with use of two antennas oppositely located within the TCABR chamber and established by phase difference between their radio-frequency current. Knowledge of the toroidal wave number is important for a correct estimate of both the excited mode location and the plasma effective ion mass value. The value of the initially found effective mass was $ A_ {eff} \\approx 1.60$, higher than our expectations at first and did not agree with plasma conductivity estimates, and we proposed that it had a systematic error of approximately $10\\%$. To calibrate the central plasma density, it was used data from a reflectometer and some plasma discharges performed with helium gas, which has the same effective mass as most TCABR impurities. Finally, we estimate the effective mass as $ A_ {eff} = 1.40 \\pm 0.07$, that is consistent with the $ Z_ {eff} $ estimation. (AU) | |