S Henderson M Bernert D Brida M Cavedon P David R Dux O Fevrier A Jarvinen A Kallenbach R McDermott M O Mullane
This paper addresses two key issues regarding plasma exhaust in future fusion reactors. Firstly, using newly developed spectroscopic models to measure the divertor concentration of Ne and Ar, it is shown that the experimental detachment threshold on ASDEX Upgrade with Ar-only, an Ar+N mixture, and a Ne+N mixture scales as expected in comparison wit…
PreprintK. Verhaegh A.C. Williams D. Moulton B. Lipschultz B.P. Duval O. Février A. Fil J. R. Harrison N. Osborne H. Reimerdes C. Theiler
Divertor detachment requires plasma-neutral interactions which dissipate momentum, power and particles simultaneously. Plasma-molecular interactions can result in molecular ions which react with the plasma. This can contribute to detachment through molecular activated recombination (MAR) and molecular activated dissociation (MAD), both of which cre…
Preprint PublishedN. VIANELLO N. WALKDEN M. DUNNE B. LOMANOWSKI E. WOLFRUM C. TSUI A. STAGNI M. GRIENER B. TAL T. EICH D. REFY D. BRIDA O. FEVRIER M. AGOSTINI H. DE OLIVEIRA S. ALEIFERIS M. BERNERT J. BOEDO M. BRIX D. CARRALERO I. CARVALHO L. FRASSINETTI C. GIROUD A. HAKOLA A. HUBER . KARHUNEN J, A. KARPUSHOV B. LABIT A. MEIGS V. NAULIN T. PEREIRA C. PEREZ VON THUN H. REIMERDES C. THEILER the ASDEX Upgrade Team the TCV team the EUROfusion MST1 Team the JET Contributors
The evolution of SOL density profiles and fluctuations have been studied at different recycling levels in 3 different tokamaks, ASDEXUpgrade, TCV and JET, all operated in HMode. In all devices we clearly observe an increase of far SOL efolding length at high …
Preprint PublishedKevin Verhaegh Basil Duval Ben Dudson Alex Fil Olivier Février Daljeet Gahle James Harrison Omkar Myatra Artur Perek Christian Theiler Mirko Wensing
In this work we provide experimental insights into the impact of plasma-molecule interactions on divertor detachment by applying new spectroscopic analysis techniques to the hydrogen Balmer line series to investigate how both atom and plasma-molecule interactions impact particle balance. Our analysis on a representative L-mode TCV density ramp dis…
Preprint PublishedA. Fil B. Dudson B. Lipschultz D. Moulton O. Myatra K. Verhaegh O. Fevrier J. Harrison A. Thornton M. Wensing
Plasma detachment needs to be achieved in ITER [1] and future devices such as DEMO to dissipate most of the power in the Scrape-Off-Layer (SOL) and reduce the particle flux reaching the divertor targets. In order to enhance our capability to improve current, and design future tokamaks, we must improve our understanding of the relative effect on det…
Preprint PublishedA. Fil D. Moulton B. Dudson B. Lipschultz K. Verhaegh O. Février O. Myatra C. Theiler M. Wensing EUROfusion MST1 teams the TCV team
In ITER and DEMO, achieving detachment at lower densities would allow to reduce the amount of impurity seeded and to improve confinement by running at lower separatrix densities. Analytic models predict that a increase of total flux expansion would allow such a reduction in upstream density at detachment. However, both experiments and modelling …
Preprint PublishedJames Harrison C. Theiler B. Lipschultz A. Perek R. Maurizio B. Linehan W. A. J. Vijvers B. P. Duval B. Labit U. Sheikh K. Verhaegh S. Henderson A. Karpushov O. Fevrier H. de Oliviera H. Reimerdes A. Merle X. Feng the TCV team and the EUROfusion MST1 team
Recent experiments on TCV have made significant progress toward partial detachment of the outer divertor in neutral beam heated H-mode plasmas. The heating power required to enter H-mode was measured in a range of divertor configurations, finding that, in the vicinity of the PL-H/ne curve, the threshold power is largely independent of the poloidal …
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