Low Frequency Oscillations of Plasma Injected into an Open Magnetic Trap from an Independent Ultrahigh Frequency Source

Abstract

Methods of plasma heating by electromagnetic waves, interaction of electro-magnetic waves with magnetoactive plasma, plasma turbulence and transport processes are investigated in the trap of the linear plasma device OMT2. An ultrahigh frequency (UHF) contactless method is used to fill the open magnetic trap by plasma. We propose a new method of open magnetic trap filling with plasma whereby plasma is injected in the trap along the magnetic field from an independent stationary UHF source. The source is located outside the trap and plasma formation in it takes place in the strongly nonuniform magnetic field, in the electron cyclotron resonance (ECR) regime by means of the UHF power. In this paper we study the efficiency of open magnetic trap filling by plasma and plasma low frequency (LF) oscillations in the trap.