Preliminary experimental results on ion cyclotron heating in the TO-2 tokamak
Artemenkov L. I. , Akhmerov N. A. , Bogdanov V. F., Vukolov K. Yu., Melikhov Yu. V. , Gott I. A., Grodzinskii E. V. , Gurov A. A. , Kovan I. A., Monakhov S. G , Mal'tsev P. A., Mukhin P. I. , Papkov L N. , Popryadukhin A. P., Sotnikov S. M., Yusupov K. Kh., Chuyanov V. A. , Shvindt N. N., Shurygin R. V.
Experimental results on the heating of a hydrogen plasma at the fundamental ion cyclotron frequency in the TO-2 tokamak are reported. Under certain conditions, described here, a pronounced absorption of the fast magnetosonic wave and a volume heating of the plasma are observed.