Improving fast-ion confinement in high-performance discharges by suppressing Alfvén eigenmodes
- Princeton Plasma Physics Lab. (PPPL), Princeton, NJ (United States)
- Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
- Univ. of California, Irvine, CA (United States)
- General Atomics, San Diego, CA (United States)
Here, we show that the degradation of fast-ion confinement in steady-state DIII-D discharges is quantitatively consistent with predictions based on the effects of multiple unstable Alfven eigenmodes on beam-ion transport. Simulation and experiment show that increasing the radius where the magnetic safety factor has its minimum is effective in minimizing beam-ion transport. This is favorable for achieving high performance steady-state operation in DIII-D and future reactors. A comparison between the experiments and a critical gradient model, in which only equilibrium profiles were used to predict the most unstable modes, show that in a number of cases this model reproduces the measured neutron rate well.
- Research Organization:
- Princeton Plasma Physics Lab. (PPPL), Princeton, NJ (United States); General Atomics, San Diego, CA (United States); Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Fusion Energy Sciences (FES); USDOE Office of Nuclear Energy (NE); USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-09CH11466; SC-G903402; FC02-04ER54698; AC52-07NA27344
- OSTI ID:
- 1353401
- Alternate ID(s):
- OSTI ID: 1361428; OSTI ID: 1840840
- Report Number(s):
- LLNL-JRNL-830739
- Journal Information:
- Nuclear Fusion, Vol. 57, Issue 5; ISSN 0029-5515
- Publisher:
- IOP ScienceCopyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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