Heating, current drive and energetic particle studies on JET in preparation of ITER operation

TitleHeating, current drive and energetic particle studies on JET in preparation of ITER operation
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2003
AuthorsJ.M Noterdaeme, R. Budny, A. Cardinali, C. Castaldo, R. Cesario, F. Crisanti, J. DeGrassie, D.A D'Ippolito, F. Durodie, A. Ekedahl, A. Figueiredo, C. Ingesson, E. Joffrin, D. Hartmann, J. Heikkinen, T. Hellsten, T. Jones, V. Kiptily, P. Lamalle, X. Litaudon, F. Nguyen, J. Mailloux, M. Mantsinen, M. Mayoral, D. Mazon, F. Meo, I. Monakhov, J.R Myra, J. Pamela, V. Pericoli, Y. Petrov, O. Sauter, Y. Sarazin, S.E Sharapov, A.A Tuccillo, D. Van Eester
JournalNuclear Fusion
Volume43
Number3
Pagination202-209
Date PublishedMar
Type of ArticleArticle
ISBN Number0029-5515
Accession NumberISI:000181913000006
KeywordsINTERNAL TRANSPORT BARRIERS
Abstract

This paper summarizes the recent work on JET in the three areas of heating, current drive and energetic particles. The achievements have extended the possibilities of JET, have a direct connection to ITER operation and provide new and interesting physics. Toroidal rotation profiles of plasmas heated far off axis with little or no refuelling or momentum input are hollow with only small differences on whether the power deposition is located on the low field side or on the high field side. With LH current drive the magnetic shear was varied from slightly positive to negative. The improved coupling (through the use of plasma shaping and CD4) allowed up to 3.4 MW of PLH in internal transport barrier (ITB) plasmas with more than 15 MW of combined NBI and ICRF heating. The q-profile with negative magnetic shear and the ITB could be maintained for the duration of the high heating pulse (8 s). Fast ions have been produced in JET with ICRF to simulate alpha particles: by using third harmonic He-4 heating, beam injected He-4 at 120 kV were accelerated to energies above 2 MeV taking advantage of the unique capability of JET to use NBI with 4 He and to confine MeV class ions. ICRF heating was used to replicate the dynamics of alpha heating and the control of an equivalent Q = 10 `burn' was simulated.

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Division

Fusion Physics

Department

Instrumentation development

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Alternate TitleNucl. Fusion

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