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UKAEA-CCFE-PR(22)642022
Ion cyclotron emission (ICE) originating from confined populations of fast ions in toroidal fusion plasmas is an important non-invasive, passive diagnostic for current and next generation devices. The ability to model the ICE signals accurately is an essential step towards inferring the characteristics of confined energetic alpha-particles or fast …
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UKAEA-CCFE-PR(22)142022
Helium ash alpha-particles at 100keV in magnetically confi ned fusion plasmas may have the same Larmor radius, as well as cyclotron frequency, as the energetic beam-injected deuterons that heat the plasma. While the velocity-space distribution of the helium ash is monotonically decreasing, that of the energetic deuterons is a delta-function in…
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UKAEA-CCFE-CP(23)252021
Ion cyclotron emission (ICE) comprises strongly suprathermal emission, which has spectral peaks at multiple ion cyclotron harmonics. ICE is driven by the magnetoacoustic cyclotron instability, resulting from an inversion in the velocity-space distribution of the minority energetic ions. Recent experimental studies on DIII-D (K E Thome et al
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UKAEA-CCFE-CP(23)182021
As the EUROfusion EU-DEMO design programme approaches the transition between the pre-conceptual and conceptual design phase the systems code PROCESS has been improved to incorporate more detailed plasma physics, engineering and analysis modules. Unlike many systems codes PROCESS combines the physics modelling with both technology and costs analysis…
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UKAEA-CCFE-PR(21)732021
During bursty MHD events, transient ion cyclotron emission (ICE) is observed from deuterium plasmas in the Large Helical Device (LHD) heliotron-stellarator. Unusually, the frequencies of the successive ICE spectral peaks are not close to integer multiples of the local cyclotron frequency of an energetic ion population in the likely emitting regi…
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UKAEA-CCFE-PR(21)092021
Ion cyclotron emission (ICE) driven by perpendicular neutral beam-injected (NBI) deuterons, together with the distinctive ICE driven by tangential NBI, have been observed from heliotron-stellarator plasmas in the Large Helical Device (LHD). Radio frequency radiation in the lower hybrid range has also been observed, with frequency dependent on plasm…
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UKAEA-CCFE-CP(23)262020
Observations of radiation in the ion cyclotron range of frequencies from the KSTAR tokamak and LHD heliotron-stellarator show that energetic neutral beam injected (NBI) ion populations can relax collectively in the edge plasma near the injection point. The resulting radiation is ion cyclotron emission (ICE), whose spectrum has strongly suprather…
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UKAEA-CCFE-PR(19)242019
Ion cyclotron emission (ICE) is detected from all large toroidal magnetically con ned fusion (MCF) plasmas. It is a form of spontaneous suprathermal radiation, whose spectral peak frequencies correspond to sequential cyclotron harmonics of energetic ion species, evaluated at the emission location. We fi rst present an account of the worldwide exper…
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CCFE-PR(16)412016
Ion cyclotron emission (ICE) offers a unique promise as a diagnostic of the fusion born alpha-particle population in magnetically confined plasmas. Pioneering observations from JET and TFTR found that ICE intensity PICE scales approximately linearly with the measured neutron flux from fusion reactions, and with the inferred concentration, na=ni, of…
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CCFE-PR(16)422016
A fast Alfven wave with a finite amplitude is shown to grow by a stimulated emission process that we propose for exploitation in toroidal magnetically confined fusion plasmas. Stimulated emission occurs while the wave propagates inward through the outer midplane plasma, where a population inversion of the energy distribution of fusion-born ions is …
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