V.G. Kiptily M. Fitzgerald S.E. Sharapov M. Poradzinski Z. Stancar P. J. Bonofiglo R. Dumont Z. Ghani V. Goloborodko S. Menmuir1 D. Keeling M. Podestà H. Sun D.M. Taylor D. Douai J. Garcia C.F. Maggi J. Mailloux F. Rimini
The fusion-born alpha-particle heating in magnetically confined fusion machines is a high priority subject for study. The self-heating of thermonuclear fusion plasma by alpha-particles was observed in recent deuterium-tritium (D-T) experiments on the Joint European Torus (JET). This observation was possible by conducting so-called “after…
PreprintM. Fitzgerald R. Dumont D. Keeling J. Mailloux S. Sharapov M. Dreval A. Figueiredo R. Coelho J. Ferreira P. Rodrigues F. Nabais D. Borba Ž. Štancar G. Szepesi R.A. Tinguely N Fil P.G. Puglia H.J.C. Oliver V. Kiptily M. Baruzzo M. Lennholm P. Siren J. Garcia C.F. Maggi
A toroidal Alfven eigenmode (TAE) has been observed driven by alpha particles in the Joint European Torus (JET). The observation was made in dedicated deuterium-tritium experiments where radio-frequency (RF) heating was absent, in the so-called “afterglow” period when neutral beam heating was removed. Agreement with reduced and perturbative mod…
PreprintN. Fil S.E. Sharapov M. Fitzgerald G.J. Choi Z. Lin R.A. Tinguely H.J.C. Oliver K.G. McClements P.G. Puglia R.J. Dumont M. Porkolab JET Contributors
Recent JET Deuterium experiments with an advanced internal transport barrier (ITB) scenario have been performed to clearly observe destabilised toroidicity-induced Alfvén eigenmodes (TAEs) by fast ions; interestingly, these also exhibit unstable electromagnetic (EM) perturbations in the sub-TAE frequency range. We identify such EM perturbations to…
Preprint PublishedM. Fitzgerald S. E. Sharapov P. Siren E. Tholerus M. Dreval G. Szepesi P. Olivares T. Jonsson N. Fil J. Ferreira P. Rodrigues A. Figueiredo D. Borba R. Coelho F. Nabais J. Mailloux H.J.C. Oliver C. Di Troia F. Napoli Z. Stancar R. Dumont D. Keeling
In this work, we use reduced and perturbative models to examine the stability of TAEs during the ITB afterglow in JET experiments designed for the observation of alpha driven TAEs. We demonstrate that in JET-like conditions, it is sufficient to use an incompressible cold plasma model for the TAE to reproduce the experimental adiabatic features…
PreprintK. K. Kirov Y. Kazakov M. Nocente J. Ongena Y. Baranov F. Casson J. Eriksson L. Giacomelli C. Hellesen V. Kiptily R. Bilato K. Crombe R. Dumont P. Jacquet T. Johnson E. Lerche M. Mantsinen D. Van Eester J. Varje H. Weisen JET Contributors
Understanding the impact of the synergistic effects on fast ion distribution function (DF) is essential for maximising the fusion rates in magnetic confinement fusion plasma. Because fusion reactions such as D-D, D-3He, D-T etc. have different energy dependencies, tailoring the energies of the fast ions to predetermined values optimal for fusion…
Preprint PublishedJaemin Seo J. Kim J. Mailloux R.J. Dumont M. Fitzgerald S.E. Sharapov D.L. Keeling F. Koechl F.J. Casson C.Y. Lee T.S. Hahm Y.-S. Na JET contributors
Parametric dependencies of the linear stability of toroidal Alfven eigenmode (TAE) in the presence of neutral beam injection (NBI) are investigated to understand the beam drive and damping effect of TAEs in JET and KSTAR. It is found that the results depend on the drift orbit width of the beam-ions normalized to the characteristic mode widths. I…
Preprint PublishedV.G. Kiptily Ye. Kazakov M. Nocente M. Fitzgerald S. Sharapov A.E. Shevelev JET Contributors
Elliptical AE (EAE) and TAE mode instabilities have been observed in hydrogen-rich (nH/(nH+nD)~70-90% JET discharges of so-called “three-ion scenario”, i.e. D-(3He)-H three ion ICRH scenario [1], which is characterized by strong absorption of radio frequency waves a…
Preprint PublishedC. Challis R. Dumont D. Frigione L. Garzotti J. Graves E Lerche J. Mailloux M. Mantsinen F. Rimini F. Casson A. Czarneka R. Felton J. Garcia C. Giroud E. Joffrin H.-T. Kim M. Lennholm P. Lomas C. Lowry L. Meneses I Nunes et al.
The JET exploitation plan foresees D-T operations in 2019-2020. With respect to the first D-T campaign in 1998, when JET was equipped with a carbon wall, the experiments will be conducted in presence of a beryllium-tungsten ITER-like wall and will benefit from an extended and improved set of diagnostics and higher available additional heating power…
Preprint PublishedV. Aslanyan S. Taimourzadeh L. Shi Z. Lin G. Dong P. Puglia M. Porkolab R. Dumont S. E. Sharapov J. Mailloux M. Tsalas M. Maslov A. Whitehead R. Scannell S. Gerasimov S. Dorling S. Dowson H. K. Sheikh T. Blackman G. Jones A. Goodyear K. K. Kirov P. Blanchard A. Fasoli D. Testa JET Contributors
The Gyrokinetic Toroidal Code (GTC) has been used to study Toroidal Alfven Eigenmodes (TAEs) in high-performance plasmas. Experiments performed at the Joint European Torus, where TAEs were driven by energetic particles arising from Neutral Beams, ion cyclotron resonant heating and resonantly excited by dedicated external antennas, have been simulat…
Preprint PublishedN. Fil M. Porkolab P. Puglia V. Aslanyan S. Dowson M. Fitzgerald S. E. Sharapov H. K. Sheikh Z. Lin J. Bao P. Blanchard A. Fasoli D. Testa J. Mailloux M. Tsalas M. Maslov A. Whitehead R. Scannell S. Gerasimov S. Dorling T. Blackman G. Jones A. Goodyear K. K. Kirov R. Dumont M. Podesta JET Contributors
The resonant detection and measurement of the damping rates of Alfvén Eigenmodes (AEs) is of critical importance to the design of experiments and development of models of AE stability [1]. With the Alfvén Eigenmodes Active Diagnostic (AEAD) on JET, weakly-damped Toroidal AEs (TAEs) have been probed. Theoretical modeling using the Gyrokinetic Toro…
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