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Plasma rotation is of interest for improving confinement and stabilising plasma. Effects from fast particles with broad orbits can only partly explain the changes in the rotation profiles during ICRH. The effect on wave-particle interaction of a finite poloidal mode number is discussed and two new RF-mechanisms are proposed: Co-current torque caused by sputtering by rectified RF-sheath potentials and transport of momentum due to spatial dispersion. The latter effect affects the RF-current drive, in particular, in conjunction with mode conversion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Recent progress on heating and current drive on JET is reported. Topics discussed are: high power coupling of ICRF/LH at ITER relevant antenna/launcher-separatrix distances, succesfull demonstration of 3 dB couplers for ELM tolerance of the ICRF system, influence of ICRF on LH operation, rotation studies in plasma without external momentum with standard and enhanced JET toriodal field ripple, studies of different ICRF heating schemes and of NTM avoidance schemes using Ion Cyclotron Current Drive. A brief outlook on future plans for experiments at JET is given. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]