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Vacuum Characteristics of KSTAR ICRF Antenna during RF Operation  

Bae, Young-Dug (Nuclear Fusion Research Laboratory, Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute)
Kwak, Jong-Gu (Nuclear Fusion Research Laboratory, Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute)
Hong, Bong-Geon (Nuclear Fusion Research Laboratory, Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute)
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Journal of the Korean Vacuum Society / v.15, no.3, 2006 , pp. 314-324 More about this Journal
Abstract
The vacuum characteristics of the KSTAR ICRF antenna were experimentally investigated. The fabricated antenna was installed in the RF Test Chamber(RFTC) which has a vacuum system with an effective pumping speed of 1015 l/s. The time variations of RFTC pressure, total gas load and ultimate pressure were measured before the RF test. RF conditioning effect was studied by repeating RF pulses at low power level. A time variation of the RFTC pressure was measured during a RF power was applied to the antenna. Threshold pressure at which a RF breakdown occurs was investigated. Whenever the pressure was higher than $10^{-4}$ mbar, the RF breakdown occurred. During a long pulse testing, the temperature of the antenna and RFTC pressure were measured to investigate long pulse limitation of the maximum available voltage without any cooling, which were compared with testing results with a water cooling of the antenna.
Keywords
ICRF antenna; KSTAR; RF test; Vacuum characteristics;
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