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Progress in LHCD modeling and experiments towards the at regime on Alcator C-Mod

  • S. Shiraiwa
  • , P. T. Bonoli
  • , I. Faust
  • , O. Meneghini
  • , A. Hubbard
  • , R. R. Parker
  • , A. E. Schmidt
  • , G. M. Wallace
  • , J. W. Hughes
  • , R. Mumgaard
  • , S. Scott
  • , J. R. Wilson
  • , R. W. Harvey
  • , A. P. Smirnov

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Abstract

Electron internal transport barrier (ITB) formation is observed during fully non-inductive LHCD discharges on Alcator C-Mod. The formation is characterized by an abrupt increase of the central electron temperature after a few current penetration time has passed following LHCD turn-on. The ITB phase is often terminated by m=2 mode activity. Kinetic equilibrium reconstruction and TRANSP/LSC analysis show shear reversal in the q profile during the ITB phase. TRANSP/LSC predictive analysis suggests that f Bs∼60% is possible if a similar temperature gradient is maintained at r/a∼0.5 with H-factor of 1.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationRadio Frequency Power in Plasmas - Proceedings of the 19th Topical Conference
Pages439-442
Number of pages4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2011
Externally publishedYes
Event19th Topical Conference on Radio Frequency Power in Plasmas - Newport, RI, United States
Duration: Jun 1 2011Jul 3 2011

Publication series

NameAIP Conference Proceedings
Volume1406
ISSN (Print)0094-243X
ISSN (Electronic)1551-7616

Conference

Conference19th Topical Conference on Radio Frequency Power in Plasmas
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityNewport, RI
Period6/1/117/3/11

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • General Physics and Astronomy

Keywords

  • ITB
  • LHCD
  • tokamak

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