Martin Valovic Y Baranov G Buchanan J Citrin E Delabie L Frassinetti J M Fontdecaba L Garzotti C Giroud R McKean E Lerche V Kiptily F Köchl M Marin M Maslov S Menmuir G Tvalashvili H Weisen the JET Contributors
Deuterium pellets are injected into initially pure hydrogen H-mode plasma in order to control H:D isotope mixture. The pellets are deposited in outer 20% of minor radius, similar to that expected in ITER creating transiently hollow electron density profiles. The isotope mixture of H:D ~ 45:55% is obtained in the core with pellet fuelling throughput…
Preprint PublishedLuca Garzotti C. Challis R. Dumont D. Frigione J. Graves E Lerche J. Mailloux M. Mantsinen F. Rimini F. Casson A. Czarnecka J. Eriksson R. Felton L. Frassinetti D. Gallart J. Garcia C. Giroud E. Joffrin H.-T. Kim N. Krawczyk M. Lennholm P. Lomas C. Lowry L. Meneses I. Nunes C. M. Roach M. Romanelli S. Sharapov S. Silburn A. Sips E. Stefanikova M. Tsalas D. Valcarcel M. Valovic JET contributors
The JET exploitation plan foresees D-T operations in 2020 (DTE2). With respect to the first D-T campaign in 1997 (DTE1), when JET was equipped with a carbon wall, the experiments will be conducted in presence of a beryllium-tungsten ITER-like wall (ILW) and will benefit from an extended and improved set of diagnostics and higher additional heating …
Preprint PublishedF.J. Casson H. Patten C. Bourdelle S. Breton J. Citrin F. Koechl C. Angioni Y. Baranov R. Bilato E. Belli C.D. Challis G. Corrigan A. Czarnecka O. Ficker L. Garzotti M. Goniche J.P. Graves T. Johnson K. Kirov P. Knight E. Lerche M. Mantsinen J. Mylnar M. Sertoli M. Valisa JET contributors
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D. Gallart M. Mantsinen C. Challis D. Frigione J. Graves E. Belonohy F. Casson A. Czarnecka J. Eriksson J. Garcia M. Goniche C. Hellesen J. Hobirk P. Jacquet E. Joffrin N. Krawczyk D. King M. Lennholm E. Lerche E. Pawelec X. Sáez M. Sertoli G. Sips E. Solano M. Tsalas P. Vallejos Olivares M. Valisa
During the 2015-2016 JET campaigns many efforts have been devoted to the exploration of high-performance plasma scenarios envisaged for DT operation in JET. In this paper we review various key recent hybrid discharges and model the combined ICRF+NBI heating. These deuterium discharges with deuterium beams had the ICRF antenna frequency tuned to mat…
Preprint PublishedKrassimir Kirov Yu. Baranov I.S. Carvalho C.D. Challis J. Eriksson D. Frigione L. Garzotti J. Graves P. Jacquet D.L. Keeling E. Lerche P.J. Lomas C. Lowry M. Mantsinen F. Rimini and JET Contributors
Fast ion synergistic effects were studied by predictive modelling of JET best performing pulses for various levels of Neutral Beam (NB) and Radio Frequency (RF) power. Calculated DD neutron yields were analysed with the intention of separating the impact of sheer synergistic effects due to changes in fast ion (FI) distribution function (DF) from su…
Preprint PublishedL. Giacomelli S. Conroy F. Belli G. Gorini E. Joffrin V. Kiptily E. Lerche A. Murari V.V. Plyusnin S. Popovichev C. Reux M. Riva D.B. Syme JET EFDA Contributors
The Joint European Torus (JET, Culham, UK) is the largest tokamak in the world. JET has been upgraded over the years and recently it has also become a test facility of the components designed for ITER, the next step fusion machine under construction in Cadarache (France). At JET, the neutron emission profile of Deuterium (D) or Deuterium-Tritium (D…
PublishedE. Lerche M. Goniche P. Jacquet D. Van Eester V. Bobkov L. Colas A. Czarnecka S. Brezinsek M.Brix K. Crombe M. Graham M. Groth I. Monakhov T. Mathurin G. Matthews L. Meneses C. Noble V. Petrzilka F. Rimini A. Shaw JET-EFDA Contributors
Recent JET-ILW [1,2] experiments reiterated the importance of tuning the plasma fuelling in order to optimize ion cyclotron resonance frequency (ICRF) heating in high power H-mode discharges. By fuelling the plasma from gas injection modules (GIMs) located in the midplane and on the top of the machine instead of adopting the more standardly used di…
Preprint PublishedE. Lerche M. Goniche P. Jacquet D. Van Eester V. Bobkov L. Colas I. Monakhov F. Rimini A. Czarnecka K. Crombé R. Dumont J. Hobirk Y. Kazakov M.-L. Mayoral L. Meneses J. Mlynar C. Noble I. Nunes J. Ongena V. Petrzilka M. Reich M. Santala
Ion cyclotron resonance frequency (ICRF) heating has been an essential component in the development of high power H-mode scenarios in JET-ILW. The steps that were taken for the successful use of ICRF heating in terms of enhancing the power capabilities and optimizing the heating performance in view of core impurity mitigation in these experiments w…
Preprint PublishedE. Lerche D. Van Eester Y. Kazakov P. Jacquet I. Monakhov M. Goniche L. Colas F. Rimini K. Crombé R. Dumont V. Kiptily M. Santala JET Contributors
Heating single ion species plasmas with ICRF is a challenging task: Fundamental ion cyclotron heating (w = w ci ) suffers from the adverse polarization of the RF electric fields near the majority cyclotron resonance while second harmonic heating (w = 2w ci ) typically requires pre-heating of the plasma ions to become efficient. Recently, w = 2w ci …
Preprint PublishedP. Jacquet V. Bobkov L. Colas A. Czarnecka E. Lerche M.-L. Mayoral I. Monakhov D. Van-Eester G. Arnoux S. Brezinsek M. Brix A.-L. Campergue S. Devaux P. Drewelow M. Graham C. C. Klepper A. Meigs D. Milanesio J. Mlynar T. Pütterich A. S
In 2011/12, JET started operation with its new ITER-Like Wall (ILW) made of a tungsten (W) divertor and a beryllium (Be) main chamber wall. The impact of the new wall materials on the JET Ion Cyclotron Resonance Frequency (ICRF) operation is assessed and some important properties of JET plasmas heated with ICRF are highlighted. A 20% reduction of t…
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