抄録
A magnetized coaxial plasma gun (MCPG) device at Univ. of Hyogo was used as a simulation facility for pulse heat loads such as ELMs (Edge Localized Modes) onto plasma-facing materials in magnetically confined fusion devices. In the present study, characterization of the compact toroid (CT) plasmas produced by the MCPG device was performed. Dependences of the CT plasma parameters of line-averaged electron density, ion temperature and flow velocity on the gun discharge voltage and the bias magnetic flux were measured. As a result, it was observed that the pulse length, the line-averaged electron density, and the ion temperature and flow velocity were approximately 200 µs, approximately 6×1021 m-3, approximately 30 eV, and approximately 50 km s-1, respectively. The surface energy density measured with a tungsten calorimeter was approximately 0.4 MJ m-2. Thus, it was shown that the ELM-like pulsed plasma heat loads with the energy density and the pulsed length predicted in the ITER divertor can be produced using the MCPG device.
