N. C. Hawkes B. C. Stratton T. Tala C. D. Challis G. Conway R. Deangelis C. Giroud J. Hobirk E. Joffrin P. Lomas P. Lotte J. Mailloux D. Mazon E. Rachlew S. Reyes-Cortes E. Solano K-D. Zastrow
Simultaneous current ramping and application of lower hybrid heating and current drive (LHCD) have produced a region with zero current density within measurement errors in the core of JET tokamak optimized shear discharges. The reduction of core current density is consistent with a simple physical explanation and numerical simulations of radial cur…
PublishedV. Pericoli Ridolfini S. Podda J. Mailloux Y. Sarazin Y. Baranov et al.
Good coupling of the LH power during the whole internal transport barrier (ITB) phase has been achieved in JET by fitting the plasma shape to the LH antenna shape and by injecting CD 4 gas from a pipe near to the LH grill. No adverse effect on the edge pedestal or on the ITB quality, or significant impurity influx is observed. The key is the low io…
PublishedN. C. Hawkes B. C. Stratton T. Tala C. D. Challis G. Conway R. Deangelis C. Giroud J. Hobirk E. Joffrin P. Lomas P. Lotte J. Mailloux D. Mazon E. Rachlew S. Reyes-Cortes E. Solano K-D. Zastrow
Modern charge-coupled-device (CCD) detectors can achieve peak quantum efficiencies of 90%, compared with less than 10% for the photocathode of an electron multiplier. We report on laboratory tests of examples of these two detector technologies to evaluate their relative performance for precision Doppler spectroscopy of laboratory plasmas. The tests…
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