UMIST linear system
The UMIST Linear System (ULS) is a gas target divertor simulator located on the former
Research on detached plasma and on its recombination modes is of primary importance in order to design an appropriate divertor region in a future
reactor. The major goal of the ULS as for many other linear divertor simulators, is to reproduce the same temperature and density conditions of the scrape-off layer of a tokamak
in a linear environment and therefore to make easier the study of its properties.
ULS has been used to analyze the molecular activation and the electron-ion recombination modes, and to determine the conditions for their activation: diffusive processes have also been considered. Research on these subjects is still ongoing, and understanding of the elementary processes involved in a detached plasma is still far from being satisfactory.
References
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Further reading
- Kay, Michael J. (1998) A Study of Plasma Attenuation and Recombination in the Gas Target Chamber of a Divertor Simulator. UMIST Ph.D. thesis
