Investigation of fast pitch angle scattering of runaway electrons in the EAST tokamak

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/19/12/125201

Abstract This paper reports that an experimental investigation of fast pitch angle scattering (FPAS) of runaway electrons in the EAST tokamak has been performed. From the newly developed infrared detector (HgCdTe) diagnostic system, the infrared synchrotron radiation emitted by relativistic electrons can be obtained as a function of time. The FPAS is analysed by means of the infrared detector diagnostic system and the other correlative diagnostic systems (including electron–cyclotron emission, hard x-ray, neutrons). It is found that the intensity of infrared synchrotron radiation and the electron–cyclotron emission signal increase rapidly at the time of FPAS because of the fast increase of pitch angle and the perpendicular velocity of the energetic runaway electrons. The Parail and Pogutse instability is a possible mechanism for the FPAS.

Keywords: runaway electron beam instability fast pitch angle scattering tokamak

Received: 06 December 2009
Revised: 15 April 2010
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PACS:	52.35.Qz	(Microinstabilities (ion-acoustic, two-stream, loss-cone, beam-plasma, drift, ion- or electron-cyclotron, etc.))
	52.55.Fa	(Tokamaks, spherical tokamaks)

Fund: Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 10935004 and 10775041), and partly by JSPS–CAS Core University Program in the field of "Plasma and Nuclear Fusion".

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Lu Hong-Wei(卢洪伟), Hu Li-Qun(胡立群), Li Ya-Dong(李亚东), Zhong Guo-Qiang(钟国强), Lin Shi-Yao(林士耀), Xu Ping(许平), and EAST-Team Investigation of fast pitch angle scattering of runaway electrons in the EAST tokamak 2010 Chin. Phys. B 19 125201

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