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arXiv 1806.05940physics.plasm-ph
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磁共振扰动和电荷交换反应对巨球托卡马克快离子约束和中子发射的影响

The effects of resonant magnetic perturbations and charge-exchange reactions on fast ion confinement and neutron emission in the Mega Amp Spherical Tokamak

K G McClements, K Tani, R J Akers, Y Q Liu, K Shinohara, H Tsutsui, S Tsuji-Iio

摘要:

非轴对称共振磁微扰(RMP)在兆磁球形托卡马克(MAST)低电流等离子体中的应用被发现与中子产生的大幅下降相关,表明快离子约束的显著退化。这种扰动对MAST中快离子的影响已经使用非稳态轨道跟踪蒙特卡罗代码(NSS OFMC)的修订版本进行了建模,其中聚变反应速率的参数化已被更新,中子速率已被重新计算。通过与背景中性粒子的电荷交换(CX)和随后的再电离的快速中性粒子由于与散装等离子体粒子碰撞的快速离子的损失也被考虑在内。在建模中纳入了血浆对外部施用RMP反应的影响。更新后的结果表明,在RMP的存在下,考虑到等离子体响应和CX反应的计算中子速率与整个分析目标时间的实验数据非常吻合。CX反应在确定中子速率方面起着重要作用,特别是在RMP开始之前。

英文摘要:

The application of non-axisymmetric resonant magnetic perturbations (RMPs) to low current plasmas in the Mega Amp Spherical Tokamak (MAST) was found to be correlated with substantial drops in neutron production, suggesting a significant degradation of fast ion confinement. The effects of such perturbations on fast ions in MAST have been modelled using a revised version of a non-steady-state orbit-following Monte-Carlo code (NSS OFMC), in which the parametrization of fusion reaction rates has been updated and neutron rates have been recalculated. Losses of fast ions via charge-exchange (CX) with background neutrals and the subsequent reionization of fast neutrals due to collisions with bulk plasma particles have also been taken into account. The effects of the plasma response to externally-applied RMPs have been included in the modelling. The updated results show that computed neutron rates in the presence of RMPs with the plasma response and CX reactions taken into account agree very well with the experimental data throughout the analysis target time. CX reactions play an important role in determining the neutron rates, in particular before the onset of RMPs.

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