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Kinetic study of plasma current start-up under EBW power in tokamak plasmas
Erasmus J. du Toit, Martin R. O'Brien, Roddy G. L. Vann
Tokamak plasma current start-up assisted by Electron Bernstein waves (EBW) has been demonstrated successfully in a number of experiments. The dynamic start-up phase involves a chan…
A kinetic study of microwave start-up of tokamak plasmas
Erasmus J. du Toit, Martin R. O'Brien, Roddy G. L. Vann
A kinetic model for studying the time evolution of the distribution function for microwave start-up is presented. The model for the distribution function is two dimensional in mome…
Kinetic simulations of X-B and O-X-B mode conversion and its deterioration at high input power
A. V. Arefiev, I. Y. Dodin, A. Köhn +4
Spherical tokamak plasmas are typically overdense and thus inaccessible to externally-injected microwaves in the electron cyclotron range. The electrostatic electron Bernstein wave…
Kinetic simulations of X-B and O-X-B mode conversion
A. V. Arefiev, E. J. Du Toit, A. Köhn +3
We have performed fully-kinetic simulations of X-B and O-X-B mode conversion in one and two dimensional setups using the PIC code EPOCH. We have recovered the linear dispersion rel…