Progress of divertor simulation research toward the realization of detached plasma using a large tandem mirror device

Abstract This paper describes the results of the experiments performed on Tandem Mirror device GAMMA 10/PDX mainly using a new “divertor simulation experimental module (D-module)” installed on one of the end mirror exits which is specially designed to investigate the physics of plasma detachment. The additional ICRF heating in the anchor-cells, connected to both ends of the central-cell, significantly increases the density in the both cells, which attained the generation of the highest particle flux up to 10 23  particles/s m 2 at the end-mirror exit. H 2 and noble gas injection to enhance the radiation cooling in D-module was performed and a remarkable reduction of the electron temperature (from few tens eV to