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Measurements of poloidal and radial magnetic field, density, potential, and temperature fluctuations were simultaneously performed at the plasma edge of the TBR tokamak using a especially constructed probe system. Direct cross spectral and bispectral analyses of these fluctuations showed evidences of both linear and nonlinear coupling between electrostatic and magnetic oscillations. Resonances created by external perturbing magnetic fields slightly reduced the linear coupling and almost entirely suppressed the quadratic coupling.

Electrostatic turbulence and various aspects of magnetic fluctuations have been investigated, in the edge region of the TBR-1 tokamak, by using a set of Langmuir and magnetic probes, and a triple probe. Measurements of plasma parameters such as plasma potential, density, temperature and magnetic field were taken in order to elucidate, the effect on transport of the electrostatic and magnetic fluctuations in the edge. The fluctuations levels are found to be higher than in most tokamaks. The particle flux is outward and slightly higher than that calculated from Bohm diffusion, and occurs in the frequency region typical of the macroscopic MHD oscillations. The Mirnov-oscillation frequencies in TBR-1 are higher than those observed in other tokamaks and, consequently, there is an uncommon superposition between the Mirnov and turbulent density fluctuations spectra. This fact and the presence of high MHD activity may contribute to elucidate the possible influence of the magnetic oscillations on the electrostatic transport observed in the plasma edge.

In this work, a study is presented on the hydrogen breakdown in the TCABR Tokamak. A breakdown model has been used that permitted the delimitation of the breakdown region in that machine. In the model, we considered the ionization and losses of charged particles. The losses considered were the drift due to the curvature and the gradient of the toroidal field, the existence of spurious fields and due to the delay of the electric field. Using the parameters of TCABR, four curves involving the electric toroidal field and the filling pressure were obtained. These curves defined the hydrogen breakdown area for the TCABR. The results obtained with the model were compared with the experimental results. It was verified that, for the TCABR, breakdown occurs for pressures ranging from 9.10−6 to 3.10−4 mbar and electric fields ranging from 2 to 10 V/m. The ratio electric field/pressure, in the breakdown region, varies from 3.107 to 5.108 Vm−1 bar−1.