Neutral beam shine-through power and its dependence on the line density of the DIII-D plasma
Neutral beams are the primary source of auxiliary plasma heating in the DIII-D Tokamak. Part of the beam power passes through the plasma and is deposited on the wall of the tokamak (shine-through power) and does not contribute to plasma heating. It is therefore crucial to know the shine-through power in order to give an accurate account of the total power deposited in the plasma. The authors have recently remeasured the shine-through power using data taken from thermocouples embedded in the beam target tiles of the tokamak vessel. The tile temperature rise was correlated to the injected beam power. A dependence of the tile temperature rise don the initial tile temperature has been empirically measured and accounted for in order to obtain a more accurate determination of the shine-through beam power. Measurements of the shine-through beam power as a function of plasma density and beam energy confirm that shine-through power decreases exponentially with plasma density, and increases linearly with beam energy.
- Research Organization:
- General Atomics, San Diego, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Energy Research, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC03-89ER51114
- OSTI ID:
- 468571
- Report Number(s):
- GA-A22150; CONF-950905-47; ON: DE97004546; TRN: 97:010047
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 16. IEEE/NPSS symposium on fusion engineering, Champaign, IL (United States), 1-5 Oct 1995; Other Information: PBD: Oct 1995
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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