Study of arcing in transmission lines for RF plasma heating and scaling of the energy confinement time in tokamaks Ghent University
ICRF power coupling to plasmas in fusion devices is limited by a number of breakdown phenomena. This project focuses on the experimental characterization of arc triggering phenomena on the IShTAR test stand (IPP Garching). For that purpose, the IShTAR device is being modified in order to install a resonating circuit, which will allow studies of RF breakdown under tokamak conditions and arcing in coaxial lines. The generation of the RF high ...