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Peculiarity of highly radiating multi-impurity seeded H-mode plasmas on JET with ITER-like wall

  • Līga Avotiņa (Member of the Working Group)
  • , Larisa Baumane (Member of the Working Group)
  • , Dāvis Čonka (Member of the Working Group)
  • , Mihails Haļitovs (Member of the Working Group)
  • , Ieva Igaune (Member of the Working Group)
  • , Juris Jansons (Member of the Working Group)
  • , Gunta Ķizāne (Member of the Working Group)
  • , Ričards Kovaldins (Member of the Working Group)
  • , Andris Leščinskis (Member of the Working Group)
  • , Broņislavs Leščinskis (Member of the Working Group)
  • , Elīna Pajuste (Member of the Working Group)
  • , Aigars Vītiņš (Member of the Working Group)
  • , Artūrs Zariņš (Member of the Working Group)
  • , Roberts Zariņš (Member of the Working Group)
  • , Huber A.
  • , JET Contributors

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    Abstract

    On JET with fully metallic first wall, highly radiative conditions with N2, Ne and Ar as well as their mixture as radiators are approached in high density H-mode plasmas. The confinement increases from H 98(y,2) = 0.65 in unseeded pulses with γ rad ∼ 30% to a value of H 98(y,2) = 0.75 at γ rad ∼ 50% with N2 injection. A degradation of the pedestal profile is compensated by steeper core n e and T e profiles. Further increase of γ rad with increase of the N2 seeding rate leads to a moderate confinement degradation which can be avoided by applying of combined impurity seeding. The enhancement of the plasma performance for the radiation fractions beyond 55% with the maximum value of H 98(y,2) = 0.78 is reached with combined N2 + Ne and N2 + Ar impurity injections. The observed intense, strongly localized radiation at the X-point inside the confined plasma in the scenarios with the highest radiated power fraction is interlinked to complete divertor detachment. In the JET-ILW, the X-point radiation is stable, reproducible and reversible.

    Original languageEnglish
    Article number014055
    JournalPhysica Scripta
    Volume2020
    Issue numberT171
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2020

    UN SDGs

    This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

    1. SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy
      SDG 7 Affordable and Clean Energy

    OECD Field of Science

    • 1.3 Physical Sciences

    Keywords

    • Detachment
    • Divertors
    • Impurities in plasmas
    • Power exhaust
    • Radiation
    • Tokamaks

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