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Radial structure of alfvén eigenmodes in the DIII-D tokamak through electron-cyclotron-emission measurements

  • M. A. Van Zeeland
  • , G. J. Kramer
  • , M. E. Austin
  • , R. L. Boivin
  • , W. W. Heidbrink
  • , M. A. Makowski
  • , G. R. McKee
  • , R. Nazikian
  • , W. M. Solomon
  • , G. Wang

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Abstract

The spatial structure of toroidal Alfvén eigenmodes and reversed shear Alfvén eigenmodes in DIII-D is obtained from electron-cyclotron-emission measurements. Peak measured temperature perturbations are of similar magnitude for both toroidal Alfvén eigenmodes and reversed shear Alfvén eigenmodes and found to be δTe/Te 0.5%. Simultaneous measurements of density fluctuations using beam-emission spectroscopy indicate δne/ne 0.25%. Predictions of the measured temperature and density perturbation profiles as well as δTe/δne from the ideal magnetohydrodynamic code NOVA are in close agreement with experiment.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number135001
JournalPhysical review letters
Volume97
Issue number13
DOIs
StatePublished - 2006

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • General Physics and Astronomy

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