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Shinohara, Koji; Isobe, Mitsutaka*; Darrow, D. S.*; Shimizu, Akihiro*; Nagaoka, Kenichi*; Okamura, Shoichi*
Plasma and Fusion Research (Internet), 2, p.042_1 - 042_8, 2007/09
Fasoli, A.*; Gormezano, C.*; Berk, H. L.*; Breizman, B.*; Briguglio, S.*; Darrow, D. S.*; Gorelenkov, N.*; Heidbrink, W. W.*; Jaun, A.*; Konovalov, S. V.*; et al.
Nuclear Fusion, 47(6), p.S264 - S284, 2007/06
Times Cited Count：456 Percentile：85.96(Physics, Fluids & Plasmas)no abstracts in English
Medley, S. S.*; Andre, R.*; Bell, R. E.*; Darrow, D. S.*; Fredrickson, E. D.*; LeBlanc, B. P.*; Levinton, F. M.*; Menard, J. E.*; Stutman, D.*; Roquemore, A. L.*; et al.
Proceedings of 21st IAEA Fusion Energy Conference (FEC 2006) (CD-ROM), 8 Pages, 2007/03
The National Spherical Torus Experiment (NSTX) is particularly well suited to investigate fast-ion driven instabilities. These instabilities are observed in the wide range of frequency from 0 kHz to the ion cyclotron frequency. Two recently implemented diagnostics on NSTX, the Motional Stark Effect (MSE) and scintillator Fast Lost Ion Probe (sFLIP), facilitate separation of redistribution and loss effects. Outward redistribution of the core-peaked energetic beam ions modifies the beam-driven current profile and hence the core q-profile. For certain H-mode discharges where NPA measurements of the NB energetic ion spectra exhibit MHD-induced fast-ion depletion, the sFLIP data confirm the existence of an ion loss that occurs primarily for passing particles near the NB full injection energy. Observations and TRANSP simulations representing fast ion instability-induced redistribution/loss phenomena in NSTX are presented.
Isobe, Mitsutaka*; Toi, Kazuo*; Matsushita, Hiroyuki*; Goto, Kazuyuki*; Suzuki, Chihiro*; Nagaoka, Kenichi*; Nakajima, Noriyoshi*; Yamamoto, Satoshi*; Murakami, Sadayoshi*; Shimizu, Akihiro*; et al.
Nuclear Fusion, 46(10), p.S918 - S925, 2006/10
Times Cited Count：30 Percentile：69.47(Physics, Fluids & Plasmas)no abstracts in English
Shinohara, Koji; Isobe, Mitsutaka*; Darrow, D. S.*
Review of Scientific Instruments, 77(10), p.10E521_1 - 10E521_4, 2006/10
Times Cited Count：4 Percentile：25.17(Instruments & Instrumentation)A scintillator probe can measure the temporal evolution of both the gyro-radius and the pitch angle of the escaping ions with relatively large energy. On this system, the time resolution of the 2D measurement is determined by a framing rate of the camera. The framing rate of the old camera was 60Hz, thus the time resolution was about 17 ms. Our interest is to understand the energetic ion transport in fast events such as a bursting Alfv
n eigenmode. The typical time scale of these event interested is less than a few ms. The time resolution of the old camera was not enough for this purpose. The FASTCAM ultima II, which is a product of Photron Co., is an image-intensified high-speed video camera system with the ability to record up to 13,500 frames per second. By replacing the old camera with this ultima II, the temporal resolution was improved from about 17 ms to 0.075 ms. We have successfully installed the fast camera and captured some fast events caused by MHDs, which was not observed by the old camera. Here, we will present the specification of this system and the preliminary results using this fast camera.
Liu, D.*; Heidbrink, W. W.*; Darrow, D. S.*; Roquemore, A. L.*; Medley, S. S.*; Shinohara, Koji
Review of Scientific Instruments, 77(10), p.10F113_1 - 10F113_4, 2006/10
Times Cited Count：19 Percentile：65.29(Instruments & Instrumentation)The Solid State Neutral Particle Analyzer (SSNPA) array on the National Spherical Torus Experiment (NSTX) consists of four chords with tangency radii 60, 90, 100 and 120 cm that view across the three co-injection neutral beam lines. Each chord utilizes a silicon photodiode that is coupled to fast digitizers to measure the energy distribution of charge exchange fast neutral particles (30
100keV). By the end of the NSTX 2005 run campaign, the noise in the SSNPA was reduced by half and reasonable signals were obtained with good electromagnetic shielding, fast digitization of raw signals, software-based pulse height analysis and pulse shape discrimination. Energy resolution of 10 keV and time resolution of 2 ms have been achieved. Temporal evolutions of energetic neutral flux obtained with the SSNPA are in good agreement with those obtained with the E
B type Neutral Particle Analyzer. With these improvements, the SSNPA enables us to study MHD instabilities and fast ion redistribution.
Shinohara, Koji; Takechi, Manabu; Ishikawa, Masao; Kusama, Yoshinori; Tsuzuki, Kazuhiro; Urata, Kazuhiro*; Kawashima, Hisato; Tobita, Kenji; Fukuyama, Atsushi*; Cheng, C. Z.*; et al.
Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 46(7), p.S31 - S45, 2004/07
Times Cited Count：42 Percentile：77.89(Physics, Fluids & Plasmas)Recent energetic particle physics research has been devoted to Alfven eigenmodes (AEs) in reversed-shear (RS) plasmas, energetic ion transport in the appearance of modes in the frequency range of TAE, energetic ion behavior in the plasma with a current hole, and ripple loss in the complex toroidal field ripple due to ferritic steel plates. We will report these recent progresses for energetic particle physics in JT-60U and JFT-2M.
Shinohara, Koji; Kawashima, Hisato; Tsuzuki, Kazuhiro; Urata, Kazuhiro*; Sato, Masayasu; Ogawa, Hiroaki; Kamiya, Kensaku; Sasao, Hajime; Kimura, Haruyuki; Kasai, Satoshi; et al.
Nuclear Fusion, 43(7), p.586 - 593, 2003/07
Times Cited Count：49 Percentile：80.18(Physics, Fluids & Plasmas)In JFT-2M, the ferritic steel was installed inside the vacuum vessel as the third step of tne Advanced Material Tokamak Experiment (AMTEX) programme. The magnetic field structure has become the complex ripple strucuture such as non-periodic ripple structure in the toroidal direction and high Fourier-number ripple because of the existence of the port and the limitation of the periodic installation. Under such a complex ripple structure, we have performed the experiment to understand its effect on fast ions. To actively change the ripple structure, we have installed the additional ferritic steel plates (FPs). We also have compared the experiment result with the newly updated OFMC code which does not need the toroidal 16-folded symmetry. The experiment results were almost consistent with the OFMC calcution with the complex magnetic field and the complex first wall.
Kawashima, Hisato; Sato, Masayasu; Tsuzuki, Kazuhiro; Miura, Yukitoshi; Isei, Nobuaki; Kimura, Haruyuki; Nakayama, Takeshi*; Abe, Mitsushi*; Darrow, D. S.*; JFT-2M Group
Nuclear Fusion, 41(3), p.257 - 263, 2001/03
Times Cited Count：37 Percentile：72.57(Physics, Fluids & Plasmas)no abstracts in English
Shinohara, Koji; Isobe, Mitsutaka*; Darrow, D. S.*; Shimizu, Akihiro*; Nagaoka, Kenichi*; Okamura, Shoichi*
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