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UKAEA-CCFE-PR(21)772021
The optimum conditions for access to and sustainment of H-mode plasmas and their expected plasma parameters in the Pre-Fusion Power Operation 1 (PFPO-1) phase of the ITER Research Plan, where the additional plasma heating will be provided by 20 MW of Electron Cyclotron Heating (ECH), are assessed in order to identify key open R&D issues. The as…
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UKAEA-CCFE-PR(21)762021
We present the first parallel electron transport results obtained using the newly developed 1D transport code SOL-KiT. In order to properly predict divertor heat loads it is of key importance to develop a thorough understanding of discrepancies between different parallel transport modelling approaches. With the capability to self-consistently sw…
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UKAEA-CCFE-CP(21)102021
This paper shows experimental results from the TCV tokamak that indicate plasma-molecule interactions involving D+2 and possibly D− play an important role as sinks of energy (through hydrogenic radiation as well as dissociation) and particles during divertor detachment if low target temperatures (< 3 eV) are achieved. Bot…
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UKAEA-CCFE-CP(21)062021
In this work we provide experimental insights into the impact of plasma-molecule interactions on divertor detachment by applying new spectroscopic analysis techniques to the hydrogen Balmer line series to investigate how both atom and plasma-molecule interactions impact particle balance. Our analysis on a representative L-mode TCV density ramp dis…
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UKAEA-CCFE-PR(21)692021
The ASCOT orbit-following code has been equipped with a model for simulating charge exchange (CX) of fast ions with background atoms in magnetically confined fusion plasmas. The model was successfully verified by comparing simulated reaction mean free paths to analytical values across a range of fusion-relevant parameters. ASCOT was used to simulat…
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UKAEA-CCFE-PR(21)682021
Using the notion of eigenstrain produced by the defects formed in a material exposed to high energy neutron irradiation, we develop a method for computing macroscopic elastic stress and strain arising in components of a fusion power plant during operation. In a microstructurally isotropic material, the primary cause of macroscopic elastic stress an…
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UKAEA-CCFE-PR(21)672021
Using the PION ICRH modelling code on JET tokamak pulses, the effect of including pitch angle dependence within the RF diffusion operator is investigated. This is found to be of greatest importance to the particle distribution function in cases of higher harmonic heating and lower heating ion mass, resulting in faster drop-off of the distribution 
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UKAEA-CCFE-PR(21)632021
The 2D scrape-off-layer turbulence code (nSOLT) includes 1D Boltzmann neutral-plasma interactions, a model of divertor recycling (introduced here), and a fixed source of plasma concentrated at the core-side boundary. 1) Neutral injection in the far-SOL is accomplished by specifying the density of Franck-Condon distributed neutrals streaming in from…
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UKAEA-CCFE-PR(21)612021
We use beam tracing — implemented with a newly-written code, Scotty — and the reciprocity theorem to derive a model for the linear backscattered power of the Doppler Backscattering (DBS) diagnostic. Our model works for both the O-mode and X-mode in tokamak geometry (and certain regimes of stellarators). We present the analytical derivation of o…
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UKAEA-CCFE-PR(21)582021
This paper presents recent progress on the studies of neoclassical tearing modes (NTMs) on TCV, concerning the new physics learned and how this physics contributes to a better real-time (RT) control of NTMs. A simple technique that adds a small (sinusoidal) sweeping to the target electron cyclotron (EC) beam deposition location has proven effective…
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