Published October 1, 2015 | Version v1
Journal article

Multi-diagnostic approach to geodesic acoustic mode study

  • 1. Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University, 29 Politekhnicheskaya, St Petersburg 195251 (Russian Federation)
  • 2. Ioffe Institute, 26 Politekhnicheskaya, St Petersburg 194021 (Russian Federation)
  • 3. Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik, 2 Boltzmannstraße, Garching D-85748 (Germany)

Description

Multi-diagnostic approach developed for the GAM research in the spherical tokamak Globus M is described. Doppler backscattering (DBS) method as the tool for the GAM study, together with the diagnostics of plasma density and magnetic field GAM oscillations, were simultaneously used in experiments. The version of the DBS diagnostics with two cut-offs positioned at different poloidal angles of the minor cross-section was employed in Globus-M. For the GAM plasma density oscillation study, the Dα emission was observed at different angles to restore the spatial mode structure of the GAM plasma density oscillations. At the same time, the array of Mirnov coils was used for the GAM-like magnetic oscillation study, and that made it possible to restore the magnetic field perturbation spatial structure. The coherent and cross-bicoherence analyzes were employed to identify the interaction between the GAM velocity oscillation and plasma turbulent fluctuations. A shorter version of this contribution is due to be published in PoS at: 1st EPS conference on Plasma Diagnostics

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/10/10/P10023

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of Instrumentation
Journal Volume
10
Journal Issue
10
Journal Page Range
p. P10023
ISSN
1748-0221