1. Non-resonant destabilization of (1/1) internal kink mode by suprathermal electron pressure
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Plasma Science and Fusion Center, Shiraiwa, Shunichi, Irby, James Henderson, Granetz, Robert S, Parker, Ronald R, Baek, Seung Gyou, Faust, Ian Charles, Wallace, Gregory Marriner, Mumgaard, Robert Thomas, Gao, Chi, Greenwald, Martin J, Hubbard, Amanda E, Hughes Jr, Jerry, Marmar, Earl S, Rice, John E, Wolfe, Stephen M, Delgado-Aparicio, L., Sugiyama, L., Gates, D. A., Gorelenkov, N., Scott, S., Bertelli, N., Phillips, P. E., Rowan, W. L., Wilson, R., Wukitch, S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Plasma Science and Fusion Center, Shiraiwa, Shunichi, Irby, James Henderson, Granetz, Robert S, Parker, Ronald R, Baek, Seung Gyou, Faust, Ian Charles, Wallace, Gregory Marriner, Mumgaard, Robert Thomas, Gao, Chi, Greenwald, Martin J, Hubbard, Amanda E, Hughes Jr, Jerry, Marmar, Earl S, Rice, John E, Wolfe, Stephen M, Delgado-Aparicio, L., Sugiyama, L., Gates, D. A., Gorelenkov, N., Scott, S., Bertelli, N., Phillips, P. E., Rowan, W. L., Wilson, R., and Wukitch, S.
- Abstract
New experimental observations are reported on the structure and dynamics of short-lived periodic (1, 1) "fishbone"-like oscillations that appear during radio frequency heating and current-drive experiments in tokamak plasmas. For the first time, measurements can directly relate changes in the high energy electrons to the mode onset, saturation, and damping. In the relatively high collisionality of Alcator C-Mod with lower hybrid current drive, the instability appears to be destabilized by the non-resonant suprathermal electro n pressure - rather than by wave-particle resonance, rotates toroidally with the plasma and grows independently of the (1, 1) sawtooth crash driven by the thermal plasma pressure., United States. Department of Energy (Contract DE-FC02-99ER54512), United States. Department of Energy (Contract DE-SC0007883)
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- 2018