A method of plasma production by ion cyclotron wave heating has been developed in RFC-XX. Nagoya Type-Ill antennas were used for wave excitation, and gas was supplied through a gas box. The effect of the rotating field excitation on plasma production and heating was investigated. In the m = -1 rotational mode (rotation in the direction of ion cyclotron motion), the plasma density profile is flat within the gas box bore with a line integrated density n£ = 3 X 10 13 cm~2, and the ion temperature is T ; « 150 eV. For the m = +1 mode, a high density plasma was obtained with a different profile having a peak at the centre. In this mode, the line integrated density is n2 = 3 X 10 l4 cm~2, with the peak density n(0) = 7 X 10 13 cm" 3 .

Experimental data for ion cyclotron resonance heating in the RFC-XX machine in IPP-Nagoya are presented. The achieved ion temperature is as high as 100 eV at n = 1013 cm−3 and 1 keV at n = 1012 cm−3. The ion energy confinement becomes worse by the application of a longer pulse, which is found to be due to the enhanced charge-exchange loss and/or electron drag. Axially and azimuthally arrayed antennas are used in the heating, and the importance of the phasing is demonstrated. A simple model of the multiple-antenna problem is also given and used to interpret the experimental data.

Solid papillary carcinoma (SPC) is considered a rare malignant breast tumor. Maluf and Koerner first reported this disease entity as a special type of ductal carcinoma in situ with several characteristic histopathological features, including low-grade cellular atypia, intracellular or extracellular mucin deposition, and solid papillary growth pattern, as well as neuroendocrine differentiation. The present paper describes a case of SPC with bcl-2 expression, which is known as a marker for malignancy of neuroendocrine tumors. Interestingly, despite bcl-2 expression being a poor prognostic indicator of neuroendocrine tumors, the patient with this tumor has achieved long-term survival (approximately 6 years) at the time of writing this report. Because previous investigators reported that bcl-2 expression might play a role in the inhibition of the development of breast cancer, we suggest that bcl-2 expression might reflect a good prognosis in patients with SPC, rather than being a poor prognostic indicator, as it is in several types of neuroendocrine tumor. However, to confirm this hypothesis, further investigation is required.

Axisymmetric cusp end cells have application for the stabilization and plugging of a tandem-mirror-type reactor. Experiments have been performed on the RFC-XX double cusp in Nagoya, Japan to measure the stability of the hollow plasma in the adiabatically confined region of the device. Experiments were performed with both a uniform field central section and with a mirror central section connecting the two cusps. The plasma is produced by an rf discharge of gas puffed into the vessel. Plasma fluctuations were measured by Langmuir probes and magnetic probes. Stable regions of operation with a hollow plasma in the cusp are found for both magnetic configurations. Various types of instabilities are observed: electrostatic drift type waves with m≥1, lower-frequency waves with a magnetic perturbation associated with the density perturbation, an m=0 ion-acoustic mode, and a large amplitude relaxation oscillation.

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