Observation of Mode-Converted Ion Bernstein Waves in the Microtor Tokamak

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P. Lee · University of California, Los Angeles

Robert J. Taylor · University of California, Los Angeles

W. A. Peebles · University of California, Los Angeles

H. Park · University of California, Los Angeles

Chengwei Yu · University of California, Los Angeles

Yingfeng Xu · University of California, Los Angeles

Neville C. Luhmann

Abstract

Mode-conversion processes play an important role in the radio-frequency heating of tokamak plasmas. This paper reports the first direct observation of externally driven ion Bernstein waves in a tokamak plasma. The waves are only observed in mixed-species plasmas near the ion-ion hybrid resonance layer and are interpreted as being the result of linear mode conversion of the fast magnetosonic wave.

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Magnetic confinement fusion research Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics Dust and Plasma Wave Phenomena

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Published in: Physical Review Letters

Volume 49, Issue 3, pp. 205-208

DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.49.205

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Observation of Mode-Converted Ion Bernstein Waves in the Microtor Tokamak

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