HJ. Sun SA. Silburn IS. Carvalho C Giroud G Fishpool GF. Matthews DB. King RB. Henriques DL. Keeling FG. Rimini L. Garzotti D. Frigione D. Van Eester D Kos M-L. Mayoral J. Mailloux C. Maggi A. Huber D. Douai PJ. Lomas L Morten M. Maslov K. Kirov P. Jacquet CG. Lowry M. Baruzzo C. Stuart J. Mitchell L. Horvath DC. McDonald JET Contributors
Unusually high power loads on the Beryllium limiter caused by Neutral Beam re-ionisation, and much cooler divertor target surfaces were observed during the recent JET tritium campaign. As both phenomena are driven by scrape-off layer (SOL) physics, the SOL features of 72 tritium H-mode discharges and their deuterium references have been studied. …
Preprint PublishedC.I. Stuart G. Artaserse P. Card I.S. Carvalho R. Felton S.N. Gerasimov A. Goodyear R.B. Henriques D. Karkinsky P.J. Lomas P. McCullen F. Rimini A.V. Stephen D.F. Valcárcel J. Waterhouse M. Wheatley
Plasma Event TRiggering for Alarms (PETRA) is a flexible new system at JET for detecting plasma events to trigger exception handling responses. It provides a platform for all existing and new techniques which involve processing JET real-time data to identify when to change the trajectory of a plasma shot, and reduces the technical cost and risk in …
Preprint PublishedL. Piron T. C. Hender E. Joffrin F. Auriemma P. Buratti R. Paccagnella P. Zanca C. Challis S. Gerasimov R. B. Henriques L. Marrelli P. Lomas F. Rimini D. Terranova
The presence of Error Fields (EFs) in magnetic fusion devices can affect energy confinement and plasma stability by braking plasma rotation, by inducing fast particle losses and being amplified when exploring high-b regimes. The resulting EF Locked Modes (LMs) can be stabilized by NBI injection through the rotation shielding mechanism. However, …
Preprint PublishedS.N. Gerasimov G Artaserse P. Buratti I.S. Carvalho E. de la Luna T.C. Hender R.B. Henriques P.J. Lomas E. Matveeva S. Moradi L. Piron F.G. Rimini G. Szepesi L.E. Zakharov JET Contributors
An n = 1 locked, or slowly rotating, mode has been observed in most pulses prior to JET disruptions. However, a small fraction of non-disruptive pulses has a locked mode which eventually vanishes without disruption. Hence, on JET the locked mode amplitude is routinely used as an indicator of unhealthy plasma. There are two threshold levels…
Preprint PublishedSergei Gerasimov P. Abreu G Artaserse M. Baruzzo P. Buratti I.S. Carvalho I.H. Coffey E. de la Luna T.C. Hender R.B. Henriques R. Felton U. Kruezi P.J. Lomas P. McCullen M. Maslov E. Matveeva S. Moradi L. Piron F.G. Rimini W. Schippers G. Szepesi M. Tsalas L.E. Zakharov
The paper presents an analysis of disruptions occurring during JET-ILW plasma operations covering the period from the start of ILW (ITER-like wall) operation up to completion of JET operation in 2016. The total number of disruptions was 1951 including 466 with deliberately induced disruptions. The average disruption rate of unintended disruptions i…
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