A novel measurement of marginal Alfven Eigenmode stability during high power auxiliary heating in JET
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Author(s)
Tinguely, R. Alex
Fil, N.
Puglia, P.G.
Dowson, S.
Porkolab, Miklos
Guillemot, V.
Podestà, M.
Baruzzo, M.
Dumont, R.
Fasoli, A.
Date Issued
October 2021
Journal
Nuclear Fusion
Publisher
IOP
Abstract
The interaction of Alfven Eigenmodes (AEs) and energetic particles is one of many important factors determining the success of future tokamaks. In JET, eight in-vessel antennas were installed to actively probe stable AEs with frequencies ranging 25-250 kHz and toroidal mode numbers |n| < 20. During the 2019-2020 deuterium campaign, almost 7500 resonances and their frequencies f0, net damping rates \gamma < 0, and toroidal mode numbers were measured in almost 800 plasma discharges. From a statistical analysis of this database, continuum and radiative damping are inferred to increase with edge safety factor, edge magnetic shear, and when including non-ideal effects. Both stable AE observations and their associated damping rates are found to decrease with |n|. Active antenna excitation is also found to be ineffective in H-mode as opposed to L-mode; this is likely due to the increased edge density gradient's effect on accessibility and ELM-related noise's impact on mode identification. A novel measurement is reported of a marginally stable, edge-localized Ellipticity-induced AE probed by the antennas during high-power auxiliary heating (ICRH and NBI) up to 25 MW. NOVA-K kinetic-MHD simulations show good agreement with experimental measurements of f0, \gamma, and n, indicating the dominance of continuum and electron Landau damping in this case. Similar experimental and computational studies are planned for the recent hydrogen and ongoing tritium campaigns, in preparation for the upcoming DT campaign.
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Submitted for publication in Nuclear Fusion
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Plasma Science and Fusion Center
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https://doi.org/10.1088/1741-4326/ac3c84
