ICRH in radiatively cooled TEXTOR-94 plasmas

Autor: G. Bonheure, G. Van Wassenhove, M. Vervier, J. Winter, J. Ongena, B. Schweer, R. Uhlemann, L. Könen, H. R. Koslowski, J. Schwelberger, K.H. Finken, A. M. Messiaen, G. Mank, Juergen Rapp, R. J. E. Jaspers, G. Van Oost, J.A. Boedo, G. Bertschinger, Pierre Dumortier, R.R. Weynants, G. Fuchs, G.H. Wolf, A. Krämer-Flecken, A.I. Lyssoivan, G. Waidmann, R. Koch, A. Pospieszczyk, U. Samm, P. E. Vandenplas, B. Unterberg, Giuseppe Telesca, F. Durodié, D. L. Hillis
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Popis: To reach the recently established Radiative Improved Mode (RI-Mode) with full performance the additional heating power must include at least a small fraction of neutral beam co-injection. The role of ICRH is essential because it allows to perform this regime in quasi-stationary conditions by maintaining a constant β value using feedback control of the ICRH power level. The confinement properties and the performance achieved have been analysed varying the ratio of neutral beam co-injection over the ICRH power. It is shown that above a threshold density confinement increases with density in all cases (as for the ohmic Neo-Alcator scaling), in contrast to the usual L and H mode scalings. The deterioration of confinement with total applied power remains. The RI-Mode regime has been established on TEXTOR-94 with Ne or Ar seeding.
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