Scenario development for the observation of alpha-driven instabilities in JET DT plasmas

Remi Dumont; J. Mailloux; V. Aslanyan; M. Baruzzo; C.D. Challis; I. Coffey; A. Czarnecka; E. Delabie; J. Eriksson; J.M. Faustin; J. Ferreira; M. Fitzgerald; J. García; L. Giacomelli; C. Giroud; N. Hawkes; Ph. Jacquet; E. Joffrin; T. Johnson; D. Keeling; D. King; V. Kiptily; B. Lomanowski; E. Lerche; M. Mantsinen; L. Meneses; S. Menmuir; K. McClements; S. Moradi; F. Nabais; M. Nocente; A. Patel; H. Patten; P. Puglia; R. Scannell; S. Sharapov; E.R. Solano; M. Tsalas; P. Vallejos; H. Weisen; Leena Aho-Mantila; Markus Airila; Antti Hakola; Aaro Järvinen; Juuso Karhunen; Seppo Koivuranta; Aki Lahtinen; Jari Likonen; Antti Salmi; Paula Sirén; Tuomas Tala; JET Contributors

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Scenario development for the observation of alpha-driven instabilities in JET DT plasmas

Remi Dumont^*, J. Mailloux, V. Aslanyan, M. Baruzzo, C.D. Challis, I. Coffey, A. Czarnecka, E. Delabie, J. Eriksson, J.M. Faustin, J. Ferreira, M. Fitzgerald, J. García, L. Giacomelli, C. Giroud, N. Hawkes, Ph. Jacquet, E. Joffrin, T. Johnson, D. KeelingD. King, V. Kiptily, B. Lomanowski, E. Lerche, M. Mantsinen, L. Meneses, S. Menmuir, K. McClements, S. Moradi, F. Nabais, M. Nocente, A. Patel, H. Patten, P. Puglia, R. Scannell, S. Sharapov, E.R. Solano, M. Tsalas, P. Vallejos, H. Weisen, Leena Aho-Mantila, Markus Airila, Antti Hakola, Aaro Järvinen, Juuso Karhunen, Seppo Koivuranta, Aki Lahtinen, Jari Likonen, Antti Salmi, Paula Sirén, Tuomas Tala, JET Contributors

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Abstract

In DT plasmas, toroidal Alfvén eigenmodes (TAEs) can be made unstable by the alpha particles resulting from fusion reactions, and may induce a significant redistribution of fast ions. Recent experiments have been conducted in JET deuterium plasmas in order to prepare scenarios aimed at observing alpha-driven TAEs in a future JET DT campaign. Discharges at low density, large core temperatures associated with the presence of internal transport barriers and characterised by good energetic ion confinement have been performed. ICRH has been used in the hydrogen minority heating regime to probe the TAE stability. The consequent presence of MeV ions has resulted in the observation of TAEs in many instances. The impact of several key parameters on TAE stability could therefore be studied experimentally. Modeling taking into account NBI and ICRH fast ions shows good agreement with the measured neutron rates, and has allowed predictions for DT plasmas to be performed.

Original language	English
Article number	082005
Journal	Nuclear Fusion
Volume	58
Issue number	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/1741-4326/aab1bb
Publication status	Published - 29 Jun 2018
MoE publication type	A1 Journal article-refereed

Funding

This work has been carried out within the framework of the EUROfusion Consortium and has received funding from the Euratom research and training programme 2014–2018 under grant agreement No 633053 and from the RCUK Energy Programme [grant number EP/P012450/1]. Support for the US group was provided by the US DOE under Grant Number DE-FG02-99ER54563. This work was supported in part by the Swiss National Science Foundation, and was granted access to the HPC resources of TGCC under the allocation 2017-A0010506088 made by GENCI.

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alphas
DT plasmas
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TAEs

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Dumont, R., Mailloux, J., Aslanyan, V., Baruzzo, M., Challis, C. D., Coffey, I., Czarnecka, A., Delabie, E., Eriksson, J., Faustin, J. M., Ferreira, J., Fitzgerald, M., García, J., Giacomelli, L., Giroud, C., Hawkes, N., Jacquet, P., Joffrin, E., Johnson, T., ... JET Contributors (2018). Scenario development for the observation of alpha-driven instabilities in JET DT plasmas. Nuclear Fusion, 58(8), Article 082005. https://doi.org/10.1088/1741-4326/aab1bb

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