(EX/P3-10) New Results from Globus-M Spherical Tokamak
V.K. Gusev1),
V.M. Amoskov2),
A.S. Ananiev1),
E.A. Azizov3),
A.G. Barsukov4),
V.A. Belyakov2),
S.E. Bender2),
I.N. Chugunov1),
A.V. Dech1),
V.V. Dyachenko1),
V.E. Golant1),
M.A. Irzak1),
S.V. Krikunov1),
Yu.A. Kostsov2),
E.A. Kuznetsov3),
V.M. Leonov4),
R.G. Levin1),
S.Yu. Medvedev5),
V.B. Minaev1),
A.B. Mineev2),
O.A. Minyaev1),
E.E. Mukhin1),
A.N. Novokhatskii1),
M.I. Patrov1),
A.A. Petrov3),
V.G. Petrov3),
Yu.V. Petrov1),
K.A. Podushnikova1),
V.V. Rozhdestvenskii1),
N.V. Sakharov1),
O.N. Shcherbinin1),
V.N. Scherbitskii3),
E.I. Terukov1),
G.N. Tilinin4),
S.Yu. Tolstyakov1),
V.I. Vasiliev2),
M.I. Vildjunas1),
N.I. Vinogradov1),
A.V. Voronin1),
V.A. Yagnov3)
1) A.F. Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute, Russian Academy of Science, St. Petersburg, Russia
2) D.V. Efremov Research Institute of Electrophysical apparatus, St. Petersburg, Russia
3) TRINITI, Troitsk, Moscow region, Russia
4) Nuclear Fusion Institute, RRC``Kurchatov Institute", Moscow, Russia
5) M.V. Keldysh Institute for Applied Mathematics, Moscow, Russia
Abstract. New results from the Globus-M spherical tokamak are presented. High plasma current of 0.36 MA, high toroidal magnetic field of 0.55 T and other important plasma characteristics were achieved. Described are the operational space and plasma stability limits in the OH regime. The factors limiting operational space (MHD instabilities, runaway electrons, etc.) are discussed. New experiments on plasma fuelling are described. First results of experiments with a coaxial plasma gun injector are presented. Initial results of a plasma – wall interaction study are outlined. First results obtained with new diagnostic tools installed on the tokamak are presented. An auxiliary heating system test was performed. Preliminary results of simulations and experiments are given.
IAEA 2003
