Stability analysis of toroidicity-induced Alfven eigenmodes in TFTR deuterium-tritium experiments
Journal Article
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· Physical Review Letters
- Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University, P.O. Box 451, Princeton, New Jersey 08543 (United States)
The toroidicity-induced Alfven eigenmodes (TAE) are found to be stable in the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor (TFTR) deuterium-tritium plasmas. The dominant stabilizing mechanisms are beam ion Landau damping and radiative damping. A core localized TAE mode is shown to exist near the center of the plasma at small magnetic shear and finite plasma beta, which can be destabilized by energetic alpha particles in future TFTR DT experiments. With additional instability drive from fast minority ions powered by ion cyclotron radio frequency, both the global and core localized TAE modes can be readily destabilized.
- Research Organization:
- Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-76CH03073
- OSTI ID:
- 239433
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review Letters, Journal Name: Physical Review Letters Journal Issue: 12 Vol. 75; ISSN 0031-9007; ISSN PRLTAO
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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