Charge-Exchange and Fusion Reaction Measurements During Compression Experiments with Neutral Beam Heating in the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor

摘要

Adiabatic toroidal compression experiments were performed in conjunction with high power neutral beam injection in the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor (TFTR). Acceleration of beam ions to energies nearly twice the injection energy was measured with a charge-exchange neutral particle analyzer. Measurements were also made of 2.5 MeV neutrons and 15 MeV protons produced in fusion reactions between the deuterium beam ions and the thermal deuterium and sup 3 He ions, respectively. When the plasma was compressed, the d(d,n) sup 3 He fusion reaction rate increased a factor of five, and the sup 3 He(d,p) sup 4 He rate by a factor of twenty. These data were simulated with a bounce-averaged Fokker-Planck program, which assumed conservation of angular momentum and magnetic moment during compression. The results indicate that the beam ion acceleration was consistent with adiabatic scaling. (ERA citation 11:037195)