ICRF heating scenarios in Alcator C-MOD

Conference · Sat Oct 15 00:00:00 EDT 1994 · AIP Conference Proceedings (American Institute of Physics); (United States)

OSTI ID:7159955

Takase, Y; Bonoli, P T; Golovato, S N; Porkolab, M ^[1]

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1. MIT Plasma Fusion Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 (United States)

Alcator C-MOD tokamak ([ital R]=0.67 m, [alpha]=0/21 m, [kappa cur]1.8, [ital B][le]9 T, [ital I][le]3 MA) will start operating in April 1993. Initially 2 MW of rf power at 80 MHz will be available, which will be upgraded to 4 MW by early 1994. Additional 2--4 MW of 40--80 MHz tunable power may be installed in 1996 in collaboration with PPPL. With the 80 MHz transmitters, He[sup 3] minority heating at [ital B]=7.9 T and H minority heating at 5.3 T are the main heating scenarios, with possibilites of He[sup 3] and H second harmonic minority heating (at 3.9 T and 2.6 T, respectively) and direct electron heating by ELD/TTMP. The tunable transmitter will enable fundamental He[sup 3] and H minority heating at lower fields, and Alfven wave heating below the ion cyclotron frequency at fields above 4 T in H plasmas. Advanced tokamak scenarios with high bootstrap current fraction and high normalized beta can also be studied in combination with pellet fueling and 4.6 GHz LHCD under TPX-like conditions ([ital B][similar to]4 T, [ital [bar n]][sub [ital e]][approx lt]1[times]10[sup 20] m[sup [minus]3]) for pulse lengths exceeding the L/R time.

• DOE Contract Number: AC02-78ET51013
• OSTI ID: 7159955
• Report Number(s): CONF-9304112-; CODEN: APCPCS
• Journal Information: AIP Conference Proceedings (American Institute of Physics); (United States), Vol. 289:1; Conference: 10. topical conference on radio frequency power in plasmas, Boston, MA (United States), 1-3 Apr 1993; ISSN 0094-243X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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