Control of fluctuations in ECR plasma by applying multipole magnetic fields.pdf

Control of fluctuation in ECR plasma by applying multipole magnetic fields Hayato Tsuchiyaa , Mayuko Koga, Masayuki Fukao, and Yoshinobu Kawai aInterdisciplinary Graduate School of Engineering Sciences, Kyushu University, Kasuga, Fukuoka 816-8580, Japan The control of fluctuations generated in an electron cyclotron resonance (ECR) plasma is attempted by changing microwave powers. It is found that when a cage is introduced in the vacuum chamber, the fluctuations change from turbulent state to chaotic state in the high microwave power region while it changes from chaotic state to periodic state in the low microwave power region. This result suggests that the geometry of the cage affects the state of the instability. Moreover it is found that the superposition of multicusped fields created by small permanent magnets reduces the chaotic dimension of the instability. When pulsed multipole magnetic fields are also added to external magnetic fields, the fluctuations are suppressed. 1. Introduction There is an increasing interest in chaos and turbulence generated in plasmas [1]. Chaos and turbulence are often troublesome phenomena which may have harmful consequence. Such systems reach turbulent state via chaos. Therefore, the investigation of controlling chaos will contribute to an understanding of turbulence in fusion-oriented plasmas. Chaos in high temperature plasmas will evolve into fully developed turbulence and lead to the anomalous transport. Suppression of turbulence is necessary for improving the confinement. There are some reports about the controlling of instabilities in plasma [2-5]. Especially, chaos control is one of the most powerful methods because it does not need high power to control [6-7]. However, chaos control is only effective when the system is in chaos state. Therefore, the transition of the system from turbulent state to chaotic state is important for chaos control. Matsukuma et al. found that the ion-ion instabilit