C J Ham C G Gimblett S E Penington
It is well known that stabilization of the resistive wall mode (RWM) may allow fusion power to be significantly increased for a given magnetic field in advanced tokamak operation. The principle of stabilization of the RWM by rotation has been established both experimentally and theoretically. Recent experimental results have indicated stabilization…
PublishedC J Ham C G Gimblett R J Hastie
Stabilization of the resitive wall mode (RWM) may allow fusion power to be doubled for a given magnetic field in advanced tokamak operation. Experimental evidence from DIII-D and other machines suggests that plasma rotation can stabilize the RWM. Several authors (Finn 1995 Phys. Plasmas 2 3782, Bondeson Xie 1997 Phys. Plasmas 4 2081) have construct…
PublishedA. Kirk Yueqiang Liu E. Nardon P. Tamain P. Cahyna I. Chapman P. Denner H. Meyer S. Mordijck D. Temple The Mast Team
Experiments have been performed on MAST using internal (n=3) resonant magnetic perturbation coils. The application of the RMPs to L-mode discharges has shown a clear density pump out when the field line pitch angle at the low field side of the plasma is sufficiently well aligned with the applied field. The application of the RMPs before the L-H tra…
PublishedJohn Connor Colin Windsor
Derek Robinson was a leading UK plasma physicist of his generation. After an early success in measuring the electron temperature in the ZETA plasma through the Thomson scattering of laser light, he became a key member of the team from Culham Laboratory sent to Moscow in 1968 to verify the high temperatures claimed by the Russians for their T3 tokam…
PublishedM. Vrancken F. Durodié P. Dumortier D. Lockley F. Louche et al.
The ITER ICRF antenna’s coupled power to plasma is determined not only by the plasma scrape-off layer profiles and shaping of the front strap array, but also by assuring optimal excitation of the array by the overall layout of the feed network and the detailed shaping of the RF components therein. This paper describes the optimization of the feed…
PublishedJ. Urban J. Decker Y. Peysson J. Preinhaelter V. Shevchenko et al.
Spherical tokamaks (STs), which feature relatively high neutron flux and good economy, operate generally in high-ß regimes, in which the usual EC O- and X- modes are cut-off. In this case, electron Bernstein waves (EBWs) seem to be the only option that can provide features similar to the EC waves—controllable localized heating and current drive …
PublishedM. Goniche P. K. Sharma V. Basiuk Y. Baranov C. Castaldo et al.
Lower Hybrid waves have shown to have a high current drive (CD) efficiency suitable for current profile modification [1, 2]. These results were obtained at rather low density. Recent results on C-Mod [3], FTU [4] and JET [5, 6] indicate that CD efficiency could decrease at high density. On JET, the analysis of the contribution of fast electrons to …
PublishedA. Ekedahl L. Delpech M. Goniche D. Guilhem J. Hillairet et al.
The aim of the Tore Supra tokamak is to address physics and technology issues of long pulse discharges. For this purpose, Tore Supra is equipped with two actively cooled Lower Hybrid Current Drive (LHCD) antennas (f = 3.7GHz), designed to operate in 1000s long pulses. One of these is the recently installed passive active multijunction (PAM) antenna…
PublishedR. Koch E. Lerche D. Van Eester M. Nightingale
A steady-state tokamak reactor (SSTR) requires a high efficiency current drive system, from plug to driven mega-amps. RF systems working in the ion-cyclotron range of frequencies (ICRF) have high efficiency from plug to antenna but a limited current drive (CD) efficiency and centrally peaked CD profiles. The latter feature is not adequate for a SST…
PublishedL. Colas Ph. Jacquet M.L. Mayoral G. Arnoux V. Bobkov et al.
Heat loads from ICRF and LH wave absorption in the SOL are characterized on JET from the de-convolution of surface temperatures measured by infrared thermography. The spatial localization, quantitative estimates, parametric dependence and physical origin of the observed heat fluxes are documented. Implications of these observations are discussed fo…
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