Nuclear Fusion And Plasma Physics Proceedings Of The International Summer School

The lectures given in the Summer School covered most of the important topics in controlled nuclear fusion and high temperature plasma physics. The topics are as follows: tokamak research, stellarator physics, transport and confinement of high temperature plasma, plasma-wall interaction and edge plasma physics, heating and current drive, diagnostics and general plasma theory.

This book contains the lectures of the 2nd ITER International Summer School (2008), which was held in conjunction with the 47th Summer School of JSPF for Young Plasma Scientists at Kyushu University during July 22-25, 2008. The theme of the school, “Confinement (from device to plasma)”, was to provide a comprehensive knowledge for fusion research in the ITER era. Fusion research will enter a new phase with ITER, characterized by plasmas with substantial fusion reaction rates, run by an international collaboration effort. Recognizing this new challenge, this book uniquely addresses the definition of mission, the design of device and the knowledge bases for its completion in a consistent manner. This book aims to prepare young researchers to tackle the current and anticipated challenges of magnetic fusion devices, and to disseminate the global knowledge required for a timely and competent exploitation of the ITER physics potential.

Diagnostics for Fusion Experiments provides information pertinent to the fundamental aspects of plasma physics. This book presents the requirement in measuring electron and ion temperatures at the multi-key level. Organized into four parts encompassing 36 chapters, this book begins with an overview of the principles and methods by which analysis of the fast neutrals obtained by charge exchange in the plasma volume can be utilized to obtain the plasma ion temperature. This text then examines the use of active particle beam systems in plasma diagnostics. Other chapters consider the source function for production of fast neutrals in Tokamak plasma. This book discusses as well the special diagnostic needs of mirror machines, with focus on diagnostics involving the higher-power neutral beams used with them. The final chapter deals with the standard mirror fission-fusion hybrid, tandem mirror, and the field-reversed mirror. This book is a valuable resource for experimental physicists and research workers.

The main focus of the workshop was on tokamak physics and magnetic confinement fusion, plasma turbulence, dusty plasmas, intense laser-plasma interactions, plasma based particle acceleration, and quantum plasmas including quantum electrodynamic effects. The aim of the workshop was also to provide training for young scientists from all over the world, mainly from third world countries, and to give them the opportunity to interact with the senior scientists in an informal manner. A selected number of papers by the invited speakers appears in this book.