Effect of the minority concentration on ion cyclotron resonance heating in presence of the ITER-like wall in JET

Journal Article · Wed Feb 12 00:00:00 EST 2014 · AIP Conference Proceedings

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4864528· OSTI ID:22263858

Van Eester, D.; Lerche, E.; Crombé, K.; Jachmich, S. ^[1]; Jacquet, P.; Graham, M.; Kiptily, V.; Matthews, G.; Mayoral, M. -L.; Mc Cormick, K.; Monakhov, I.; Noble, C.; Rimini, F.; Solano, E. R. ^[2]; Bobkov, V.; Maggi, C.; Neu, R.; Pütterich, T. ^[3]; Czarnecka, A. ^[4]; Coenen, J. W. ^[5] ; others, and

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1. LPP-ERM/KMS, Association Euratom-Belgian State, TEC Partner, Brussels (Belgium)
2. Euratom-CCFE Fusion Association, Culham Science Centre (United Kingdom)
3. MPI für Plasmaphysik Euratom Assoziation, Garching (Germany)
4. Institute of Plasma Physics and Laser Microfusion, Warsaw (Poland)
5. IEK-4, EURATOM-FZJ, TEC Partner, Jülich (Germany)

The most recent JET campaign has focused on characterizing operation with the 'ITER-like' wall. One of the questions that needed to be answered is whether the auxiliary heating methods do not lead to unacceptably high levels of impurity influx, preventing fusion-relevant operation. In view of its high single pass absorption, hydrogen minority fundamental cyclotron heating in a deuterium plasma was chosen as the reference wave heating scheme in the ion cyclotron domain of frequencies. The present paper discusses the plasma behavior as a function of the minority concentration X[H] in L-mode with up to 4MW of RF power. It was found that the tungsten concentration decreases by a factor of 4 when the minority concentration is increased from X[H] ≈ 5% to X[H] % 20% and that it remains at a similar level when X[H] is further increased to 30%; a monotonic decrease in Beryllium emission is simultaneously observed. The radiated power drops by a factor of 2 and reaches a minimum at X[H] ≈ 20%. It is discussed that poor single pass absorption at too high minority concentrations ultimately tailors the avoidance of the RF induced impurity influx. The edge density being different for different minority concentrations, it is argued that the impact ICRH has on the fate of heavy ions is not only a result of core (wave and transport) physics but also of edge dynamics and fueling.

• OSTI ID: 22263858
• Journal Information: AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 1580, Issue 1; Conference: 20. topical conference on radiofrequency power in plasmas, Sorrento (Italy), 25-28 Jun 2013; Other Information: (c) 2014 American Institute of Physics; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0094-243X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

74 ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS
71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS
GENERAL PHYSICS
ABSORPTION
AUXILIARY HEATING
BERYLLIUM
CYCLOTRON RESONANCE
CYCLOTRONS
DEUTERIUM
EMISSION
HEAVY IONS
ICR HEATING
ITER TOKAMAK
L-MODE PLASMA CONFINEMENT
PLASMA
TUNGSTEN