Development of a sub-cm high resolution ion Doppler tomography diagnostics for fine structure measurement of guide field reconnection in TS-U

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Abstract

A new type of high-throughput/high-resolution 96CH ion Doppler tomography diagnostics has been developed using "multi-slit" spectroscopy technique for detailed investigation of fine structure formation during high guide field magnetic reconnection. In the last three years, high field merging experiment in MAST pioneered new frontiers of reconnection heating [1]: formation of highly peaked structure around {\it X}-point in high guide field condition ($B_t>0.3$T), outflow dissipation under the influence of better plasma confinement to form high temperature ring structure which aligns with closed flux surface of toroidal plasma, and interaction between ion and electron temperature profile during transport/confinement phase to form triple peak structure ($\tau^E_{ei}\sim4$ms). To investigate more detailed mechanism with in-situ magnetic measurement, the university of Tokyo starts the upgrade of plasma parameters and spatial resolution of optical diagnostics as in MAST. Now, a new type of high-throughput/high-resolution 96CH ion Doppler tomography diagnostics system construction has been completed and it successfully resolved fine structure of ion heating downstream, aligned with closed flux surface formed by reconnected field. [1] H. Tanabe et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 215004 (2015)

*This work was supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Numbers 15H05750, 15K14279 and 17H04863.

Authors

  • Hiroshi Tanabe

    • Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo
  • Hideya Koike

    • Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo
  • Hironori Hatano

    • Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo
  • Takumi Hayashi

    • Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo
  • Qinghong Cao

    • Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo
  • Shunichi Himeno

    • Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo
  • Taishi Kaneda

    • Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo
  • Moe Akimitsu

    • Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo
  • Asuka Sawada

    • Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo
  • Yasushi Ono

    • Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo