Magnetic Diagnostics for GLAST-III Tokamak

M. A. Naveed1, Aqib Javeed2 and GLAST team

National Tokamak Fusion Programme P. O. Box 3329 Islamabad Pakistan

Emails: (1) matharnaveed@hotmail.com (2) raj_uet@hotmail.com

GLAST-III is a small spherical tokamak with an insulating vacuum vessel and major and minor
radii of 20 and 10 cm respectively. The purpose of this experiment is to understand different
aspects of tokamak operation such as startup phase and then sustaining the tokamak plasma for a
sufficiently long time. This becomes a challenging job in a nonmetallic chamber because in the
absence of passive stabilization provided by the metallic chamber, the plasma is prone the many
instabilities. In this situation measurement and then corrections for various types of currents and
fields responsible for plasma generation becomes very important. This may be done by efficient
design of magnetic diagnostics. As GLAST-III has a nonmetallic chamber, the magnetic probes
and flux loops installed outside the chamber will be sufficient for recoding the fastest events
occurring inside the plasma. This also provides an opportunity for modifying the scheme of
magmatic diagnostics after online (real time) analysis of data. For GLAST-III keeping in view
the small space available, magnetic coils such as Rogowski coil for plasma current measurement,
flux loops for measurement of loop voltage and poliodal flux at various locations and small
probes for measurement of plasma position and MHD activities are fabricated, calibrated and
installed on GLAST-III. The differential signals obtained from various coils are integrated with
passive integrators and also by using numerical techniques. The results obtained by these signals
during first operation of GLAST-III are presented and discussed.