Measurements and manipulation of runaway electron plateau
2024 Research Campaign, Disruption Mitigation
Purpose of Experiment
In future tokamaks such as ITER, the possibility of having large runaway electron current poses a detrimental risk to the plasma facing components, thus it is important to understand control and mitigation of a RE beam should it occur. The physics goal of this experiment is to perturb and probe a long-lived post-disruption runaway electron beam (RE plateau). We would measure internal magnetic fluctuations with Radial Interferometer Polarimeter (RIP) diagnostic in RE beams when: (a) the edge safety factor, q(a), is small and (b) 3D Magnetic Perturbations (3DMPs) are applied.