Extension of operation regimes and investigation of three-dimensional currentless plasmas in the Large Helical Device

Kaneko, Osamu; Yamada, Hiroshi; Inagaki, S.; Jakubowski, M.; Kajita, S.; Kitajima, S.; Kobayashi, *no first name provided; Koga, K.; Morisaki, Tomohiro; Morita, S.; Mutoh, T.; Sakakibara, Satoru; Suzuki, Y.; Takahashi, H.; Tanaka, K.; Toi, K.; Yoshimura, Yasuo; Akiyama, T.; Asahi, Y.; Ashikawa, N.; Chikaraishi, H.; Cooper, A.; Darrow, D. S.; Drapiko, E.; Drewelow, P.; Du, X.; Ejiri, A.; Emoto, M.; Evans, T. E.; Ezumi, N.; Fujii, K.; Fukuda, T.; Funaba, Hisamichi; Furukawa, M.; Gates, D. A.; Goto, M.; Goto, T.; Guttenfelder, W.; Hamaguchi, S.; Hasuo, M.; Hino, T.; Hirooka, Y.; Komori, Akio; Michael, Clive; Ida, K.; Ido, T.; Masuzaki, S.; Miyazawa, Junichu; Narihara, K.; Ohyabu, N.; Osakabe, M.; Peterson, Byron; Sakamoto, R.; Sharapov, Sergei; Suzuki, C.; Nagayama, Yoshio; Sugama, H.; Takeiri, Y.; Vyacheslavov, Leonid; Yokoyama, M.

Extension of operation regimes and investigation of three-dimensional currentless plasmas in the Large Helical Device

Date

2013

Authors

Kaneko, Osamu

Yamada, Hiroshi

Inagaki, S.

Jakubowski, M.

Kajita, S.

Kitajima, S.

Kobayashi, *no first name provided

Koga, K.

Morisaki, Tomohiro

Morita, S.

Publisher

IOP Publishing

Abstract

The progress of physical understanding as well as parameter improvement of net-current-free helical plasma is reported for the Large Helical Device since the last Fusion Energy Conference in Daejeon in 2010. The second low-energy neutral beam line was ins