BRAZIL - IFUSP

LABORATORIO DE FISICA DOS PLASMAS
INSTITUTO DE FISICA
UNIVERSIDADE DE SÃO PAULO

Rua do Matão s/n Travessa ''R'', no. 187, CEP 05508-900, São Paulo
C.P. 66.318, CEP 05315-970, São Paulo

Telephone: +55 11 818 7067, 813 5035
Telefax: +55 11 818 6749
E-mail: rgalvao@if.usp.br
URL:   http://www.lfplasma.if.usp.br

Experimental Programme

Galvão, Ricardo M.O. (Head)
Da Silva, Ruy P.
De Sá, Wanderley P.
Elizondo, Juan I.

Fagundes, Aluísio N.
Franco, Hugo
Nascimento, Ivan C.
Sanada, Edson K.

Vannucci, Álvaro
Vuolo, José Henrique
Walder-Vuolo, Vilma S.

Theoretical Programme

Caldas, Iberê L.

Galvão, Ricardo M.O.

Kucinski, Mutsuko Y.

Visiting Scientists
Kuznetsov, Yurij - Institute of Plasma Physics - Karkov Institute of Physics and Technology - Ukraine
Elfimov, A.G. - Institute of Physics and Technology, Sukhumi, Abkhazia
Leonid Ruchko - Institute of Applied Physics of The Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Sumy, Ukraine
Tsypin, Vladimir - Institute of Applied Physics of The Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Sumy, Ukraine


Research activities:
Experimental Facility: Tokamak TCABR

Major Radius	0.61 m
Minor Radius	0.18 m
Toroidal Field (max.)	1.2 T
Plasma Current (max.)	110 kA
Plasma duration	100 ms
Density (max.)	8 x 1013 cm-3
Te (max.)	600 eV
Ti (max.)	250 eV

The tokamak was transfered from the CRPP - Centre de Recherche en Physique des Plasmas - École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne - Suisse, reconstructed and renamed TCABR. It was commissioned in October of 1999.

Lines of research:
Alfvén Wave Heating and Current Drive, Confinement Improvement, Disruptions and Turbulence, Secondary Generation Mechanism in Runaway Discharges.