M. Okabayashi G. Matsunaga J.S. Degrassie W.W. Heidbrink Y. In Y.Q. Liu H. Reimerdes W.M. Solomon E.J. Strait M. Takechi N. Asakura R.V. Budny G.L. Jackson J.M. Hanson R. J. La Haye M.J. Lanctot J. Manickam K. Shinohara Y.B. Zhu
An energetic-particle (EP)-driven “off-axis-fishbone-like mode (OFM)” often triggers a resistive wall mode (RWM) in JT-60U and DIII-D devices, preventing long-duration high-b N discharges. In these experiments, the EPs are energetic ions (70–85 keV) injected by neutral beams to produce high-pressure plasmas. EP-driven bursting events reduce t…
PublishedM.J. Windridge G. Cunningham T.C. Hender R. Khayrutdinov V. Lukash
Data from forced Vertical Displacement Event (VDE) experiments in the Mega Ampere Spherical Tokamak (MAST) indicate that the plasma is highly destabilised above z displacements of 0.4m. Previous work investigating the plasma response to vertical plasma perturbations in MAST had found it to be more non-linear than an equivalent conventionally-shaped…
PublishedM.A. Van Zeeland W.W. Heidbrink R.K. Fisher M. García Muñoz, G.J. Kramer D.C. Pace R.B. White S. Aekaeslompolo M.E. Austin J.E. Boom I.G.J. Classen S. Da Graça B. Geiger M. Gorelenkova N. N. Gorelenkov A. W. Hyatt N. Luhmann M. Maraschek G. R. McKee R. A. Moyer C. M. Muscatello R. Nazikian H. Park S. Sharapov W. Suttrop G. Tardini B. J. Tobias Y. B. Zhu DIII-D and ASDEX Upgrade Teams
Neutral beam injection into reversed magnetic shear DIII-D and ASDEX Upgrade plasmas produces a variety of Alfvénic activity including toroidicity-induced Alfvén eigenmodes and reversed shear Alfvén eigenmodes (RSAEs). These modes are studied during the discharge current ramp phase when incomplete current penetration results in a high central sa…
PublishedM.J. Lanctot H. Reimerdes A.M. Garofalo M.S. Chu J. M. Hanson Y.Q. Liu G.A. Navratil I.N. Bogatu Y. In G.L. Jackson R.J. La Haye M. Okayabashi J.-K. Park M.J. Schaffer O. Schmitz E.J. Strait A.D. Turnbull
A detailed experiment-theory comparison reveals that linear ideal MHD theory is in quantitative agreement with external magnetic and internal soft x-ray measurements of the plasma response to externally applied non-axisymmetric fields over a broad range of beta and rotation. This result represents a significant step toward the goal of advancing the…
PublishedJakub Urban Joan Decker Yves Peysson Josef Preinhaelter Vladimir Shevchenko Gary Taylor Linda Vahala George Vahala
The electron Bernstein wave (EBW) is typically the only wave in the electron cyclotron (EC) range that can be applied in spherical tokamaks for heating and current drive (H&CD). 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-o…
PublishedS.E. Sharapov
Instabilities of Alfvén Eigenmodes (AEs) are often excited by a super-Alfvénic population of fast ions accelerated with ion cyclotron resonance heating (ICRH) or produced by neutral beam injection (NBI) in present-day tokamaks. In view of the next-step burning plasma experiments with super-Alfvénic alpha-particles, the experimental data on AE in…
PublishedP. Jacquet G. Arnoux L. Colas L. Delpech A. Ekedahl et al.
In recent JET experiments, Lower Hybrid (LH) power losses in the Scrape-Off Layer (SOL) were characterized using infra-red (IR) thermography. Hot spots were observed on objects intercepting the field lines passing in front of the LH launcher, i.e. on poloidal limiters and on dumplates located at the top of the tokamak; their locations being in good…
PublishedT. Akiyama K. Kawahata K. Tanaka T. Tokuzawa Y. Ito S. Okajima K. Nakayama C. A. Michael L. N. Vyacheslavov A. Sanin S. Tsuji-Iio LHD Experiment Group
This paper describes the interferometer systems on the Large Helical Device (LHD). LHD is equipped with five interferometer systems, each of which has a different operational purpose and measurable electron density range. A single-channel millimeter-wave interferometer is mainly used for low-density plasmas along a horizontal line of sight on the e…
PublishedVolker Naulin Jens Juul Rasmussen Clemente Angioni Carine Giroud Marco Valisa Maria Ester Puiatti L. Carraro
Impurity transport is an important topic for ITER as impurity density in tlie core has to stay below a relative concentration of 5 x 10~^ [1] to reach ignition conditions. The reasons for that is mainly impurity radiation leading to cooling. In the edge region on the other hand site, higher impurity densities, going along with radiation energy loss…
PublishedR. Scannell M. J. Walsh P. G. Carolan A. C. Darke M. R. Dunstan R. B. Huxford G. McArdle D. Morgan G. Naylor T. O’Gorman S. Shibaev N. Barratt K. J. Gibson G. J. Tallents H. R. Wilson
A new infrared Thomson scattering system has been designed for the MAST tokamak. The system will measure at 120 spatial points with 10 mm resolution across the plasma. Eight 30 Hz 1.6 J Nd:YAG lasers will be combined to produce a sampling rate of 240 Hz. The lasers will follow separate parallel beam paths to the MAST vessel. Scattered light will b…
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