M. Turnyanskiy C. D. Challis R. J. Akers M. Cecconello D. L. Keeling A. Kirk R. Lake S. D. Pinches S. Sangaroon I. Wodniak
Previous experiments on MAST and other tokamaks have indicated that the level of fast ion redistribution can exceed that expected from classical diffusion and that this level increases with beam power. In this paper we present a quantification of this effect in MAST plasmas using a recently commissioned scanning neutron camera. The observed fast io…
PublishedI.T. Chapman W.A. Cooper A. Kirk C.J. Ham J.R. Harrison A. Patel S.D. Pinches R. Scannell A.J. Thornton The Mast Team
The distortion of the plasma boundary when three-dimensional resonant magnetic perturbations are applied has been measured in MAST H-mode plasmas. When the n = 3 resonant magnetic perturbations are applied to control edge localised modes, the plasma experiences a strong toroidal corrugation. The displacement of the plasma boundary is measured at va…
PublishedZ. R. Wang S. C. Guo Y. Q. Liu
The physics of kinetic effects on the resistive wall mode (RWM) stability is studied, and a comparison between reversed field pinch (RFP) and Tokamak configurations is made. The toroidal, magnetohydrodynamic (MHD)-kinetic hybrid stability code MARS-K, in which the drift kinetic effects are self-consistently incorporated into the MHD formulation, is…
PublishedM-D Hua IT Chapman AR Field RJ Hastie SD Pinches The Mast Team
Plasma rotation in tokamaks is of special interest for its potential stabilising effect on micro- and macro instabilities, leading to increased confinement. In MAST, the torque from Neutral Beam Injection (NBI) can spin the plasma to a core velocity ~ 300km.s -1 (Alfven Mach number ~ 0.3). Low density plasmas often exhibit a weakly non-monotonic sa…
PublishedIT Chapman M-D Hua SD Pinches RJ Akers AR Field JP Graves RJ Hastie CA Michael The Mast Team
MAST plasmas with a safety factor above unity and a profile with either weakly reversed shear, or broad low shear regions, regularly exhibit long-lived saturated ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) instabilities. The toroidal rotation is flattened in the presence of such perturbations and the fast ion losses are enhanced. These ideal modes, distinguish…
PublishedWayne Arter
In respect of their symmetry properties, toroidal magnetically confined plasmas have much in common with the Taylor-Couette flow. A symmetry-based analysis (equivalent bifurction theory) has proved very powerful in the analysis of the latter problem. This Letter discusses the applicability of the method to nuclear fusion experiments such as tokamak…
PublishedI. T. Chapman M. F. De Bock S. D. Pinches M. R. Turnyanskiy Mast Team V. G. Igochine M. Maraschek G. Tardini Asdex Upgrade Team
Sawtooth behavior has been investigated in plasmas heated with off-axis neutral beam injection in ASDEX Upgrade [A. Herrmann and O. Gruber, Fusion Sci. Technol. 44 , 569 (2003)] and the Mega-Ampere Spherical Tokamak MAST [A. Sykes and et al. , Nucl. Fusion 41 , 1423 (2001)]. Provided that the fast ions are well confined, the sawtooth period is foun…
PublishedG P Maddison A E Hubbard J W Hughes J A Snipes B Labombard I M Nunes M N A Beurskens S K Erents M A H Kempenaars B Alper S D Pinches M Valovic R Pasqualotto A Alfier E Giovannozzi JET EFDA Contributors
Experiments on the Alcator C-Mod and JET tokamaks with identical values of nondimensional variables at the pedestal top are expected to have the same local plasma transport for a ratio > 4 in absolute size and thus can help to clarify other effects in pedestal formation. At the high and low fields (7.9 T, 1.4 T respectively) involved, natural-densi…
PublishedM. Turnyanskiy D. L. Keeling R. J. Akers G. Cunningham N. J. Conway H. Meyer C. A. Michael S. D. Pinches
One of the main operational aims of the MAST experiment [1] and the proposed MAST upgrade is to investigate possible mechanisms to control the q-profile and drive off-axis current. Experiments were carried out to determine the extent to which the q-profile may be modified using two different approaches, transient and steady-state. Transient effects…
PublishedM-D Hua IT Chapman SD Pinches RJ Hastie The Mast Team
‘Advanced tokamak’ (AT) scenarios were developed with the aim of reaching tokamak steady-state operation. They are designed to optimise the self-generated current, whilst also reaching sufficiently high plasma pressure to achieve optimal fusion reaction rates. AT scenarios exhibit non-monotonic to flat safety factor profiles (q, a measure of th…
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