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Simulational study on losses of neutral beam-injected energetic ions via collisional ripple transport in the low aspect ratio helical system CHS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 December 2006

M. ISOBE
Affiliation:
National Institute for Fusion Science, Toki 509-5292, Japan
D. A. SPONG
Affiliation:
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6169, USA
A. SHIMIZU
Affiliation:
National Institute for Fusion Science, Toki 509-5292, Japan
K. TOI
Affiliation:
National Institute for Fusion Science, Toki 509-5292, Japan
H. MATSUSHITA
Affiliation:
The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Toki 509-5292, Japan
K. NAGAOKA
Affiliation:
National Institute for Fusion Science, Toki 509-5292, Japan
M. NISHIURA
Affiliation:
National Institute for Fusion Science, Toki 509-5292, Japan
K. MATSUOKA
Affiliation:
National Institute for Fusion Science, Toki 509-5292, Japan
S. OKAMURA
Affiliation:
National Institute for Fusion Science, Toki 509-5292, Japan
S. MURAKAMI
Affiliation:
Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan

Abstract

Confinement and loss properties of tangentially co-injected beam ions have been studied for a standard configuration of the Compact Helical System (Rax/Bt=0.921 m/1.9 T) by use of the global particle simulation code DELTA5D. Both ripple transport and collisions with a background plasma are taken into account. It has appeared that partially thermalized, pitch-angle scattered beam ions are dominantly lost at the small major radius side. It has also been shown that the negative potential can enhance beam ions losses.

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Copyright
2006 Cambridge University Press

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