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In this article, results are presented of experiments on depositing charged particles, which imitate the levitating dust on the Moon, on stainless steel. Ensembles of particles are created above the surface of laboratory regolith whose composition and particle size distribution imitate the dust that covers the Moon’s surface. Under the action of the gyrotron radiation on regolith, non-linear physical-chemical processes develop (breakdown, chain plasmachemical reactions, and particle scattering by the Coulomb mechanism), which lead to the appearance of a levitating cloud of particles. The simulation experiment is based on the similarity between the processes that develop in the laboratory experiments with regolith and the processes that occur on the Moon during its bombardment by micrometeorites. The effect of the levitating cloud on stainless steel plates is studied and it is shown that regolith particles in the shape of spheroids of different sizes are deposited on the surface of the plates. The dimensions of the deposited particles and the density of their placement depend on the quality of treatment of the plate surface. It is shown that the laboratory-produced dusty plasma can be used in simulation experiments to study the modification of surfaces of different materials for space technology.

In studying the high-temperature plasma physics, the researcher is faced with the need to process large amounts of semi-structured data. Dozens of multi-channel diagnostics, the results of which are multi-million ensembles of time samples of plasma signals, are usually installed at the same time in thermonuclear devices. These samples contain information necessary to understand the mechanisms of relation between plasma macroparameters (plasma density and temperature, plasma current, magnetic field, auxiliary heating power, etc) and plasma microparameters determined by turbulence (energy, spectral composition, amplitude density distribution, etc). The methods of analysis of plasma signals based on the processing of a single time realization of turbulence cannot be used as a basis for comparison with macroparameters and identification of new patterns of plasma containment in a magnetic trap. The main objective of this work is to obtain information about the relationship between the macro- and microparameters of the plasma based on the structuring of the acquired data and its multi-parameter processing using the modern software and hardware.

The results of experiments on plasma confinement at ECRH power density up to 1.5 MW/m3 are reported. It is shown that the results of measurements of the diamagnetism and poloidal rotation velocity of the plasma in the peripheral region agree with numerical calculations using a neoclassical model with allowance for anomalous losses. The correlation has been found between the low-frequency modulation of the gyrotron power radiation and the modulation of the radiation scattered by the turbulent plasma density fluctuations.