Excitation of High-Frequency Internal Kink Mode by Deeply-Trapped Energetic Ions

Deeply trapped energetic ions can destabilize the internal kink mode with both high and low frequencies with a potato-orbit limit in the EAST-like tokamaks. The threshold beta value of the deeply trapped energetic ions, the real frequency, and the growth rate of the internal kink mode are predicted in this paper.

Effects of resonant magnetic perturbations on the loss of energetic ions in tokamak pedestal

Resonant magnetic perturbations(RMPs) are extensively applied to mitigate or suppress the edge localized mode in tokamak plasmas, but will break the axisymmetric magnetic field configuration and increase the loss of energetic ions. The mechanism of RMPs induced energetic ion loss has been extensively studied, and is mainly attributed to resonant effects. In this paper,in the perturbed non-axisymmetric tokamak pedestal, we analytically derive the equations of guiding center motion for energetic ions including the bounce/transit averaged radial drift velocity and the toroidal precession frequency modified by strong radial electric field. The loss time of energetic ions is numerically solved and its parametric dependence is analyzed in detail.We find that passing energetic ions cannot escape from the plasma, while deeply trapped energetic ions can escape from the plasma. The strong radial electric field plays an important role in modifying the toroidal precession frequency and resulting in the drift loss of trapped energetic ions. The loss time of trapped energetic ions is much smaller than the corresponding slowdown time in DIII-D pedestal. This indicates that the loss of trapped energetic ions in the perturbed non-axisymmetric pedestal is important, especially for the trapped energetic ions generated by perpendicular neutral beam injection.

Energetic Ion Effects on the Ion Saturation Current

The ion saturation current is very important in probe theory, which can be used to measure the electron temperature and the floating potential. In this work, the effects of energetic ions on the ion saturation current are studied via particle-in-cell simulations. It is found that the energetic ions and background ions can be treated separately as different species, and they satisfy their individual Bohm criterion at the sheath edge. It is shown that the energetic ions can significantly affect the ion saturation current if their concentration is greater than root T-e/(gamma T-i2(i2)), where T-e is the electron temperature, and gamma(i2) and T-i2 represent the polytropic coefficient and temperature of energetic ions, respectively. As a result, the floating potential and the I-V characteristic profile are strongly influenced by the energetic ions. When the energetic ion current dominates the ion saturation current, an analysis of the ion saturation current will yield the energetic ion temperature rather than the electron temperature.

Characterization of Microstructure and Stability of Precipitation in SIMP Steel Irradiated with Energetic Fe Ions

A type of home-made reduced activation martensitic steel, high silicon （SIMP） steel, is homogeneously irradiated with energetic Fe ions to the doses of 0.1, 0.25 and 1 displacement per atom （dpa）, respectively, at 300℃ and i dpa, at 400℃. MicrostructurM changes are investigated in detail by transmission electron microscopy with cross-section technique. Interstitial defects and defect dusters induced by Fe-ion irradiation are observed in ali the specimens under different conditions. It is found that with increasing irradiation temperature, size of defect clusters increases while the density drops quickly. The results of element chemical mapping from the STEM images indicate that the Si element enrichment and Ta element depletion occur inside the precipitates in the matrix of SIMP steel irradiated to a dose of 1 dpa at 300℃. Correlations between the microstructure and irradiation conditions are briefly discussed.

Estimation of the sheath power dissipation induced by ion cyclotron resonance heating

During ion cyclotron resonance heating,the sheath power dissipation caused by ion acceleration in the radio frequency(RF)sheath is one of the main causes of RF power loss in the tokamak edge region.To estimate the power dissipation of an RF sheath in the ion cyclotron range of frequency(ICRF),a 1 D fluid model for the multi-component plasma sheath driven by a sinusoidal disturbance current in the ICRF is presented.By investigation of the sheath potential and ion flux at the wall,it is shown that the larger frequency and lower amplitude of the disturbance current can cause smaller sheath power dissipation.The effect of the energetic ion on the sheath power dissipation depends on the disturbance current.For large amplitude of disturbance current,the increase in the concentration and energy of the energetic ion leads to a decrease in sheath power dissipation.While for a small disturbance current,the sheath power dissipation demonstrates non-monotonic variation with the concentration and energy of the energetic ion.In addition,the sheath power dissipation is found to have a small increase in the presence of light impurity ions with low valence.