The interactions of a compact toroid (CT) plasma with an external magnetic
field and a tokamak plasma have been studied experimentally on the FACT and
JFT-2M devices. Fast framing camera and soft X ray emission profile measur
ements indicate shift and/or reflection motions of the CT plasma. New elect
rostatic probe measurements indicate that the CT plasma reaches at least up
to the separatrix for discharges with toroidal field strengths of 1.0-1.4
T and that there exists a trailing plasma behind the CT. A large amplitude
fluctuation on the ion saturation current and magnetic coil signals is obse
rved. Power spectrum analysis suggests that this fluctuation is related to
magnetic reconnection between the CT plasmoid and the toroidal field. The C
T, including much of the trailing plasma, may be able to move across the ex
ternal magnetic field more easily in the drift region of the injector owing
to the Hall effect.