C. Alejaldre, J. Alonso, L. Almoguera,
E. Ascasíbar, A. Baciero, R. Balbín,
M. Blaumoser, J. Botija, B. Brañas, E. de la
Cal, A. Cappa, R. Carrasco, F. Castejón,
J. R. Cepero, C. Cremy, J. Doncel, C. Dulya,
T. Estrada, A. Fernández,
M. Francés, C. Fuentes, A. García,
I. García-Cortés, J. Guasp, J. Herranz,
C. Hidalgo, J. A. Jiménez, I. Kirpitchev,
V. Krivenski, I. Labrador, F. Lapayese, K. Likin,
M. Liniers, A. López-Fraguas,
A. López-Sánchez, E. de la Luna,
R. Martín, A. Martínez,
L. Martínez-Laso, M. Medrano,
P. Méndez, K. McCarthy, F. Medina, B. van
Milligen, M. Ochando, L. Pacios, I. Pastor,
M. A. Pedrosa, A. de la Peña, A. Portas,
J. Qin, L. Rodríguez-Rodrigo,
A. Salas, E. Sánchez, J. Sánchez,
F. Tabarés, D. Tafalla, V. Tribaldos,
J. Vega and B. Zurro
Asociación Euratom-Ciemat, 28040 Madrid, Spain
D. Akulina, O. I. Fedyanin, S. Grebenshchikov,
N. Kharchev, A. Meshcheryakov, K. A. Sarksian
General Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia
R. Barth, G. van Dijk, H. van der Meiden
FOM-Instituut voor Plasmafysica `Rijnhuizen', The Netherlands
S. Petrov
Ioffe Physical Technical Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia
Abstract. First plasmas have been successfully achieved in the TJ-II
stellarator using electron cyclotron resonance heating (f = 53.2 GHz,
PECRH = 250 kW). Initial experiments have explored the TJ-II flexibility
in a wide range of plasma volumes, different rotational transform and magnetic
well values. In this paper, the main results of this campaign are presented
and, in particular, the influence of plasma wall interaction phenomena on
TJ-II operation is discussed briefly.
IAEA 2001