Abstract
Experiments in the JET tokamak with additional heating power (ion cyclotron resonance heating and/or neutral beam injection) above 5 MW show that the plasma can undergo a transition to a new regime. In this regime, the sawtooth instability is suppressed for periods up to 1.6 s and the level of long-wavelength, coherent MHD activity is very low. An improvement in the global energy confinement time of up to 20% is observed. Possible mechanisms for the stabilization of the m=1 instability and the implications for the near-ignition regime are discussed.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 2148-2151 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Physical review letters |
| Volume | 60 |
| Issue number | 21 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1988 |
| Externally published | Yes |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- General Physics and Astronomy