Recent Improvements in Fast Wave Heating in NSTX
- Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08543 (United States)
- CompX, Del Mar, CA 92014 (United States)
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831 (United States)
Recent improvements in high-harmonic fast wave (HHFW) core heating in NSTX are attributed to using lithium conditioning, and other wall conditioning techniques, to move the onset density for perpendicular fast wave propagation further from the antenna. This has resulted in the first observation of HHFW core electron heating in deuterium plasma at a launched toroidal wavenumber, k{phi} = -3 m{sup -1}, NSTX record core electron temperatures of 5 keV in helium and deuterium discharges and, for the first time, significant HHFW core electron heating of deuterium neutral-beam-fuelled H-mode plasmas. Also, k{phi} = -8 m{sup -1} heating of the plasma startup and plasma current ramp-up has resulted in significant core electron heating, even at central electron densities as low as {approx}4x10{sup 18} m-3.
- OSTI ID:
- 21335685
- Journal Information:
- AIP Conference Proceedings, Journal Name: AIP Conference Proceedings Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 1187; ISSN APCPCS; ISSN 0094-243X
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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