F.J. Casson H. Patten C. Bourdelle S. Breton J. Citrin F. Koechl C. Angioni Y. Baranov R. Bilato E.A. Belli C.D. Challis G. Corrigan A. Czarnecka O. Ficker L. Frassinetti L. Garzotti M. Goniche J.P. Graves T. Johnson K. Kirov P. Knight E. Lerche M. Mantsinen J. Mylnar M. Sertoli M. Valisa
The evolution of the JET high performance hybrid scenario, including central accumulation of the tungsten (W) impurity, is reproduced with predictive multi-channel integrated modelling over multiple confinement times using first-principle based models. 8 transport channels are modelled predictively, with self-consistent sources, radiation and magne…
Preprint PublishedF.J. Casson H. Patten C. Bourdelle S. Breton J. Citrin F. Koechl C. Angioni Y. Baranov R. Bilato E. Belli C.D. Challis G. Corrigan A. Czarnecka O. Ficker L. Garzotti M. Goniche J.P. Graves T. Johnson K. Kirov P. Knight E. Lerche M. Mantsinen J. Mylnar M. Sertoli M. Valisa JET contributors
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D. Gallart M. Mantsinen C. Challis D. Frigione J. Graves E. Belonohy F. Casson A. Czarnecka J. Eriksson J. Garcia M. Goniche C. Hellesen J. Hobirk P. Jacquet E. Joffrin N. Krawczyk D. King M. Lennholm E. Lerche E. Pawelec X. Sáez M. Sertoli G. Sips E. Solano M. Tsalas P. Vallejos Olivares M. Valisa
During the 2015-2016 JET campaigns many efforts have been devoted to the exploration of high-performance plasma scenarios envisaged for DT operation in JET. In this paper we review various key recent hybrid discharges and model the combined ICRF+NBI heating. These deuterium discharges with deuterium beams had the ICRF antenna frequency tuned to mat…
Preprint PublishedB. J. Ding P. T. Bonoli A. Tuccillo M. Goniche K. Kirov M. Li Y. Li R. Cesario Y. Peysson A. Ekedahl L. Amicucci S. Baek I. Faust R. Parker S. Shiraiwa G. M. Wallace A. Cardinali C. Castaldo S. Ceccuzzi J. Mailloux F. Napoli F. Liu B. Wan JET Contributors
Progress in understanding lower hybrid current drive (LHCD) at high density has been made through experiments and modeling, which is encouraging given the need for an efficient off-axis current profile control technique in burning plasma. By reducing the wall recycling of neutrals, the edge temperature is increased and the effect of parametric inst…
Preprint PublishedE. Lerche M. Goniche P. Jacquet D. Van Eester V. Bobkov L. Colas A. Czarnecka S. Brezinsek M.Brix K. Crombe M. Graham M. Groth I. Monakhov T. Mathurin G. Matthews L. Meneses C. Noble V. Petrzilka F. Rimini A. Shaw JET-EFDA Contributors
Recent JET-ILW [1,2] experiments reiterated the importance of tuning the plasma fuelling in order to optimize ion cyclotron resonance frequency (ICRF) heating in high power H-mode discharges. By fuelling the plasma from gas injection modules (GIMs) located in the midplane and on the top of the machine instead of adopting the more standardly used di…
Preprint PublishedE. Lerche M. Goniche P. Jacquet D. Van Eester V. Bobkov L. Colas I. Monakhov F. Rimini A. Czarnecka K. Crombé R. Dumont J. Hobirk Y. Kazakov M.-L. Mayoral L. Meneses J. Mlynar C. Noble I. Nunes J. Ongena V. Petrzilka M. Reich M. Santala
Ion cyclotron resonance frequency (ICRF) heating has been an essential component in the development of high power H-mode scenarios in JET-ILW. The steps that were taken for the successful use of ICRF heating in terms of enhancing the power capabilities and optimizing the heating performance in view of core impurity mitigation in these experiments w…
Preprint PublishedE. Lerche D. Van Eester Y. Kazakov P. Jacquet I. Monakhov M. Goniche L. Colas F. Rimini K. Crombé R. Dumont V. Kiptily M. Santala JET Contributors
Heating single ion species plasmas with ICRF is a challenging task: Fundamental ion cyclotron heating (w = w ci ) suffers from the adverse polarization of the RF electric fields near the majority cyclotron resonance while second harmonic heating (w = 2w ci ) typically requires pre-heating of the plasma ions to become efficient. Recently, w = 2w ci …
Preprint PublishedK. K. Kirov A. Ekedahl J. Bernardo M. Goniche J. Mailloux
In this report key aspects of Lower Hybrid Current Drive (LHCD) operation at JET are presented. Amplitude and broadening of the Radio Frequency (RF) spectrum at about 3.7GHz and the frequency shift of the lower sideband were analyzed by means of new diagnostic utilizing RF spectra measurements. Dependencies on plasma density, LH power and the toroi…
Preprint PublishedM-L. Mayoral V. Bobkov A. Czarnecka I. Day A. Ekedahl P. Jacquet M. Goniche R. King K. Kirov E. Lerche J. Mailloux D. Van Eester O. Asunta C. Challis D. Ciric J.W. Coenen L. Colas C. Giroud M. Graham I. Jenkins E. Joffrin T. Jones D.
The major aspects linked to the use of the JET auxiliary heating systems: NBI, ICRF and LHCD, in the new JET ITER-like wall (JET-ILW) are presented. We show that although there were issues related to the operation of each system, efficient and safe plasma heating was obtained with room for higher power. For the NBI up to 25.7MW was safely injected;…
PublishedK. K. Kirov Yu. Baranov E. Barbato M. Brix G. Corrigan A. Ekedahl M. Goniche J. Mailloux V. Petrzilka F. Rimini M. Stamp JET EFDA Contributors
An overview of the recent results of Lower Hybrid (LH) experiments at JET with the ITER-like wall (ILW) is presented. Topics relevant to LH wave coupling are addressed as well as issues related to ILW and LH system protections. LH wave coupling was studied in conditions determined by ILW recycling and operational constraints. It was concluded that …
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