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On the Formation of a Plasma Cloud at the Ablation of a Pellet in a High-Temperature Magnetized Toroidal Plasma
- Authors: Bakhareva O.A.1, Sergeev V.Y.1, Sharov I.A.1
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Affiliations:
- Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University
- Issue: Vol 117, No 3-4 (2) (2023)
- Pages: 213-219
- Section: Articles
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/0370-274X/article/view/145135
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.31857/S1234567823030060
- EDN: https://elibrary.ru/OWZOXU
- ID: 145135
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Abstract
The investigation of cold secondary plasma clouds near pellets ablating in the hot plasma of magnetic confinement devices (tokamaks and stellarators) provides valuable information on the physical characteristics of a pellet cloud. In this work, the characteristic sizes of emitting clouds around fusible polystyrene pellets and refractory carbon pellets have been analyzed. The calculation of the ionization length of C+ ions in both carbon and hydrocarbon clouds has shown that the contribution of only hot electrons is insufficient to ensure the experimentally observed decay lengths of the CII line intensity. Taking into account the strong shielding of the electron flux of the background plasma in the hydrocarbon pellet cloud, the ionization of C+ ions in this cloud is determined predominantly by electrons of the cold plasma of the cloud. Shielding near a refractory carbon pellet is weak because its ablation rate is lower. The contributions from hot electrons of the surrounding plasma and cold electrons of the pellet cloud to the ionization of C+ ions are comparable in the case of carbon pellets.
About the authors
O. A. Bakhareva
Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University
Email: o.bakhareva@spbstu.ru
195251, St. Petersburg, Russia
V. Yu. Sergeev
Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University
Email: o.bakhareva@spbstu.ru
195251, St. Petersburg, Russia
I. A. Sharov
Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University
Author for correspondence.
Email: o.bakhareva@spbstu.ru
195251, St. Petersburg, Russia
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