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The power threshold of H-mode access in mixed hydrogen–tritium and pure tritium plasmas at JET with ITER-like wall
- Source :
- Nuclear Fusion, UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
- Publication Year :
- 2022
- Publisher :
- IOP Publishing, 2022.
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Abstract
- The heating power to access the high confinement mode (H-mode), PLH, scales approximately inversely with the isotope mass of the main ion plasma species as found in (protonic) hydrogen, deuterium and tritium plasmas in many fusion facilities over the last decades. In first dedicated L–H transition experiments at the Joint European Torus (JET) tokamak facility with the ITER-like wall (ILW), the power threshold, PLH, was studied systematically in plasmas of pure tritium and hydrogen–tritium mixtures at a magnetic field of 1.8 T and a plasma current of 1.7 MA in order to assess whether this scaling still holds in a metallic wall device. The measured power thresholds, PLH, in Ohmically heated tritium plasmas agree well with the expected isotope scaling for metallic walls and the lowest power threshold was found in Ohmic phases at low density. The measured power thresholds in ion cyclotron heated plasmas of pure tritium or hydrogen–tritium mixtures are significantly higher than the expected isotope mass scaling due to higher radiation levels. However, when the radiated power is taken into account, the ion cyclotron heated plasmas exhibit similar power thresholds as a neutral beam heated plasma, and are close to the scaling. The tritium plasmas in this study tended to higher electron heating fractions and, when heated with ion cyclotron waves, to relatively higher radiation fractions compared to other isotopes potentially impeding access to sustained H-modes. The authors thank P.A. Schneider, F. Ryter, A. Nielsen, and A. Kappatou for fruitful discussions and for help with data analysis tools. This work has been carried out within the framework of the EUROfusion Consortium and has received funding from the Euratom Research and Training Programme 2014–2018 and 2019–2020 under Grant Agreement No. 633053. The views and opinions expressed herein do not necessarily reflect those of the European Commission. G. Birkenmeier received funding from the Helmholtz Association under Grant No. VH-NG-1350. Peer Reviewed "Article signat per 27 autors/es: G. Birkenmeier, E.R. Solano, E. Lerche, D. Taylor, D. Gallart, M.J. Mantsinen, E. Delabie, I.S. Carvalho, P. Carvalho, E. Pawelec, J.C. Hillesheim, F. Parra Diaz, C. Silva, S. Aleiferis, J. Bernardo, A. Boboc, D. Douai, E. Litherland-Smith, R. Henriques, K.K. Kirov, C.F. Maggi, J. Mailloux, M. Maslov, F.G. Rimini, S.A. Silburn, P. Sirén, H. Weisen and JET Contributors"
- Subjects :
- Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Física::Física de fluids [Àrees temàtiques de la UPC]
Isòtops
L–H transition
Tritium plasmas
Paper
magnetic confinement fusion
fusion plasmas
L-H transition
JET tokamak
tritium plasmas
Tritium
Condensed Matter Physics
jet tokamak
ddc
Physics::Plasma Physics
Fusion plasmas
Physics::Space Physics
Magnetic confinement fusion
Physics::Accelerator Physics
Tokamaks
l-h transition
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 17414326 and 00295515
- Volume :
- 62
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Nuclear Fusion
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....daa136307d3a56273903d49c583db313