• Ramesh Narayanan

Articles written in Pramana – Journal of Physics

• Runaway electrons in the SINP tokamak

The experimental determination of the dependance of confinement time of runaways on various discharge parameters has been presented along with the angular distribution of hard X-rays (HXrays) emitted from the torus in presence and absence of Langmuir probes.

• Comparative study of runaway electron diffusion in the rise phase of low $q_{a}$ and normal $q_{a}$ discharges in the SINP tokamak

The behaviour of runaway electrons in the SINP tokamak, which can be operated in a normal edge safety factor ($q_{a}$) (NQ) discharge configuration as well as in a low $q_{a}$ (LQ) configuration, was experimentally investigated, during the initial plasma generation phase. An energy analysis of the runaway electron dynamics in the rise phase of the SINP tokamak discharges was also made. A comparison of the runaway electron diffusion coefficients in NQ and LQ is carried out in this paper.

• Negative edge plasma currents in the SINP tokamak

A tokamak plasma discharge having an increase in duration accompanied with enhanced runaway electron ﬂux has been experimentally studied in this paper. The discharges have been obtained by controlling the applied vertical magnetic ﬁeld ($B^{\text{appl}}_v$) to below a critical value. Such discharges have been observed to have ‘negative edge plasma currents’, detected using an internal Rogowskii coil (IRC). We have tried to correlate the runaway behaviour with the negative edge plasma currents and have explained that these observations are a result of beam plasma instabilities.

• # Pramana – Journal of Physics

Volume 96, 2022
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Posted on July 25, 2019