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Changes in the energy spectra of short-wavelength (k s ≈ 35 cm−1) plasma density fluctuations in the local region of the plasma column (r/a = 0.5–0.6) of the L-2M stellarator were studied by the method of collective scattering of 150-GHz radiation. The plasma was heated at the second harmonic of the electron gyrofrequency, the microwave heating power being in the range of 90–170 kW. A sector limiter was introduced in the peripheral plasma (r/a ≥ 0.8), and the Shafranov shift of the magnetic axis was varied by varying the vertical magnetic field. The results of measurements were averaged over 9–16 discharges. It is found that an increase in the heating power and/or the introduction of the sector limiter in the plasma lead to an increase in the energy of density fluctuations, which correlates with a decrease in the plasma energy lifetime. In the spectra of fluctuations, a broad spectral band in the range of 3–50 kHz was observed in which the spectral density was one order of magnitude higher than in the rest of the spectrum. Analysis of the Fourier spectra showed that the introduction of the sector limiter in the plasma resulted in an increase in both the spectral density of fluctuations in the range of 3–50 kHz and the fraction of quasi-coherent structures in turbulent density fluctuations.
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Original Russian Text © G.M. Batanov, V.D. Borzosekov, L.V. Kolik, D.V. Malakhov, A.E. Petrov, A.A. Pshenichnikov, K.A. Sarksyan, N.N. Skvortsova, N.K. Kharchev, 2014, published in Fizika Plazmy, 2014, Vol. 40, No. 4, pp. 334–344.
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Batanov, G.M., Borzosekov, V.D., Kolik, L.V. et al. Effect of electron-cyclotron resonance heating conditions on the local parameters of short-wavelength plasma turbulence in the L-2M stellarator. Plasma Phys. Rep. 40, 265–275 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063780X14040011
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