C.D. Challis S. Brezinsek I. Coffey N. Hawkes D. Keeling D. King G. Pucella E. Viezzer JET Contributors
The initial Ohmic current ramp phase of JET hybrid plasmas, including a current ‘overshoot’ before the main heating, is used to optimise the q-profile shape to allow access to high β and avoid MHD instabilities [1]. Such hybrid plasmas have never been operated using tritium (T) or mixed deuterium-tritium (D-T) fuel. However, experiments with i…
Preprint PublishedSergei Gerasimov P. Abreu G Artaserse M. Baruzzo P. Buratti I.S. Carvalho I.H. Coffey E. de la Luna T.C. Hender R.B. Henriques R. Felton U. Kruezi P.J. Lomas P. McCullen M. Maslov E. Matveeva S. Moradi L. Piron F.G. Rimini W. Schippers G. Szepesi M. Tsalas L.E. Zakharov
The paper presents an analysis of disruptions occurring during JET-ILW plasma operations covering the period from the start of ILW (ITER-like wall) operation up to completion of JET operation in 2016. The total number of disruptions was 1951 including 466 with deliberately induced disruptions. The average disruption rate of unintended disruptions i…
Preprint PublishedKerry Lawson K M Aggarwal, I H Coffey, F P Keenan, M G O'Mullane
Helium is widely used as a fuel or minority gas in laboratory fusion experiments, and will be present as ash in DT thermonuclear plasmas. It is therefore essential to have a good understanding of its atomic physics. To this end He II population modelling has been undertaken for the spectroscopic levels arising from shells with principal quantum…
Preprint PublishedJ. C. Flanagan M. Sertoli M. Bacharis G. F. Matthews P. C. de Vries A. Widdowson I. H. Coffey G. Arnoux B. Sieglin S. Brezinsek J. W. Coenen S. Marsen T. Craciunescu A. Murari D. Harting A. Cackett E. Hodille JET-EFDA Contributors
Recent studies dedicated to the characterisation of in-vessel dust in JET with the new ITER-like wall (ILW) show that dust levels are orders of magnitude lower compared with the latter stages of the carbon-wall (CW) period and are decreasing with operational time. Less than 1 g of dust was recovered in a recent inspection, compared with more than 2…
Preprint PublishedS. Menmuir C. Giroud T. M. Biewer I. H. Coffey E. Delabie N. C. Hawkes M. Sertoli JET EFDA Contributors
Charge exchange spectroscopy has long been a key diagnostic tool for fusion plasmas and is well developed in devices with Carbon Plasma-Facing Components. Operation with the ITER-like wall at JET has resulted in changes to the spectrum in the region of the Carbon charge exchange line at 529.06nm and demonstrates the need to revise the core charge e…
PublishedA. Czarnecka V. Bobkov I. H. Coffey L. Colas P. Jacquet K. D. Lawson E. Lerche C. Maggi M.-L. Mayoral T. Pütterich D. Van Eester JET-EFDA Contributors
Magnetically confined plasmas, such as those produced in the tokamak JET, contain measurable amounts of impurity ions produced during plasma-wall interactions (PWI) from the plasma-facing components and recessed wall areas. The impurities, including high- and mid-Z elements such as tungsten (W) from first wall tiles and nickel (Ni) from Inconel str…
PublishedK.D. Lawson I.H. Coffey K.M. Aggarwal F.P. Keenan JET-EFDA Contributors
The main populating and depopulating mechanisms of the excited energy levels of ions in plasmas with densities
PublishedK. D. Lawson K. M. Aggarwal I. H. Coffey F. P. Keenan R. H. G. Reid et al.
The VUV/XUV spectral region is particularly rich in lines emitted by plasmas with temperatures = 30 keV used in fusion research. Examples are presented of analyses of JET tokamak data involving C VUV/XUV radiation. In the first, the C IV divertor emission is modelled, with agreement between theory and experiment to within the measurement accuracy o…
PublishedM. Goniche J. Mailloux Y. Baranov T. M. Biewer I. Coffey et al.
During high power commissioning of the JET LH launcher, the radiation and impurity release has been analyzed from various diagnostics: VUV and visible spectroscopy, bolometry. These two last diagnostics have lines-of-sight viewing the launcher and can provide information about the electron and/or impurity source localisation. Using a database of 80…
PublishedA.D. Whiteford N.R. Badnell R. Barnsley I.H. Coffey M.G. O’Mullane H.P. Summers K.-D. Zastrow
This paper focuses on the diagnostic analysis in magnetically confined fusion plasmas with attention drawn both to the methodology in common with that in astrophysics and to points of departure – such as species, transport, high density and the role of neutral hydrogen. Comment is also made on the state of high quality theoretical collision data …
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