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Christmas Night
Twas the night before Christmas when all through the houseNo electrons were flowing through even my mouse.
All devices were plugged in by the chimney with careWith the hope that St. Nikola Tesla would share.
E. Kawamori, T. Tamano, Y. Nakashima, M. Yoshikawa, S. Kobayashi, Y. Watanabe, H. Aminaka, T. Cho, K. Ishii, A. Mase, K. Yatsu
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 39 | Number 1 | January 2001 | Pages 257-260
Poster Presentations | doi.org/10.13182/FST01-A11963455
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In the GAMMA10 tandem mirror, the first pellet injection experiments in open systems have started.1 The tandem mirror machine is suitable for measuring propagation of pellet-fueled particles along the magnetic field lines. We observed a very low frequency oscillation in various diagnostic signals from the plasmas with a pellet injection. The frequency of the oscillation is a few hundred Hz. It is found that the phase of those signals changes to anti-phase at a certain place. The oscillation continued during plug-ECH for the formation of confining potential and its amplitude decays within a several ms after the end of ECH pulse. Measurements at several locations along the field lines indicates that this oscillation is a standing wave along field lines of plasma density perturbation due to the pellet injection. The wavelength of the oscillation is estimated to be about 6m. The oscillation has mode number n = 3.