Michael Komm Stuart Henderson Sarah Elmore COMPASS team EUROfusion MST1 team
Partial detachment is the desired regime for the baseline burning plasma scenario in ITER and next-step devices, as it allows to disspate the majority of the energy carried by charged particles through the scrape-off-layer (SOL) and thus avoids localised heat flux deposition in the divertor region. The COMPASS tokamak is equipped with an open diver…
Preprint PublishedVasili Kiptily F. Belli J. Eriksson C. Hellesen V.Goloborod’ko K.Schöpf
An effect due to fusion born triton production has been observed in JET high-performance deuterium plasma discharges with NBI and H-minority ICRF heating, using DD and DT neutron spectrometry as well as fusion product loss measurements. The observations show that increase of the triton burn up rate leads to decrease of second harmonic ωcH
Preprint PublishedL. Garzotti E. Barbato J. Garcia N. Hayashi G.Giruzzi P. Maget M. Romanelli S. Saarelma R. Stankiewitz M. Yoshida I. Voitsekhovitch R. Zagórski
Reference scenarios for the JT-60SA tokamak have been simulated with one-dimensional transport codes to assess the stationary state of the flat-top phase and provide a profile database for further physics studies (e.g. MHD stability, gyrokinetic analysis) and diagnostics design. The types of scenario considered vary from pulsed standard H-mode to a…
Preprint PublishedV. G. Kiptily M. Fitzgerald V. Goloborodko S. E. Sharapov C. D. Challis D. Frigione J. Graves M. J. Mantsinen P. Beaumont M. Garcia-Munoz C. Perez von Thun J. F. R. Rodriguez D. Darrow D. Keeling D. King K. G. McClements E. Solano S. Schmuck G. Sips G. Szepesi JET contributors
During development of a high-performance hybrid scenario for future deuterium–tritium experiments on the Joint European Torus, an increased level of fast ion losses in the MeV energy range was observed during the instability of high-frequency n = 1 fishbones. The fishbones are excited during deuterium neutral beam injection combined with…
Preprint PublishedD.R. Mason D. Nguyen-Manh C.S. Becquart
We present an empirical interatomic potential for tungsten, particularly well suited for simulations of vacancy-type defects. We compare energies and structures of vacancy clusters generated with the empirical potential with an extensive new database of values computed using density functional theory, and show that the new potential predicts low-en…
Preprint PurchaseC. J. Ham I. T. Chapman J. Simpson Y. Suzuki
Tokamaks are traditionally viewed as axisymmetric devices. However this is not always true, for example in the presence of saturated instabilities, error fields, or resonant magnetic perturbations (RMPs) applied for edge localized mode (ELM) control. We use the VMEC code (Hirshman and Whitson 1983 Phys. Fluids 26 3553) to …
Preprint PublishedA. R. Field I. Balboa P. Drewelow J. Flanagan C. Guillemaut J. R. Harrison A. Huber V. Huber B. Lipschultz G. Matthews A. Meigs J. Schmitz M. Stamp N. Walkden JET contributors
The dynamics and stability of divertor detachment in N2 seeded, type-I, ELMy H-mode plasmas with dominant NBI heating in the JET-ILW device is studied by means of an integrated analysis of diagnostic data from several systems, classifying data relative to the ELM times. It is thereby possible to study the response of the detachment evolution to the…
Preprint PublishedD.R. Mason A.E. Sand X. Yi S.L. Dudarev
Recently we have presented direct experimental evidence for large defect clusters being formed in primary damage cascades in self-ion irradiated tungsten [Yi et al., EPL 110:36001 (2015)]. This large size is significant, as it implies th…
Preprint PurchasePui-Wai Ma S.L. Dudarev C.H. Woo
Spin–lattice dynamics generalizes molecular dynamics to magnetic materials, where dynamic variables describing an evolving atomic system include not only coordinates and velocities of atoms but also directions and magnitudes of atomic magnetic moments (spins). Spin–lattice dynamics simulates the collective time evolution of spins and atoms, tak…
PublishedP. Bunting V. Thompson V. Riccardo
JET is an experimental fusion reactor consisting of magnetically confined, high temperature plasma insidea large ultra-high vacuum chamber. The inside of the chamber is protected from the hot plasma withtiles made from beryllium, tungsten, carbon composites and other materials bolted to the vessel wall.The study was carried out in response to a JET…
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