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Particle transport after pellet injection in the TJ-II stellarator

Plasma Physics 2017-03-29 v3

Abstract

We study radial particle transport in stellarator plasmas using cryogenic pellet injection. By means of perturbative experiments, we estimate the experimental particle flux and compare it with neoclassical simulations. Experimental evidence is obtained of the fact that core depletion in helical devices can be slowed-down even by pellets that do not reach the core region. This phenomenon is well captured by neoclassical predictions with DKES and FORTEC-3D.

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@article{arxiv.1601.08153,
  title  = {Particle transport after pellet injection in the TJ-II stellarator},
  author = {J. L. Velasco and K. J. McCarthy and N. Panadero and S. Satake and D. López-Bruna and A. Alonso and I. Calvo and T. Estrada and J. M. Fontdecaba and J. Hernández and R. García and F. Medina and M. Ochando and I. Pastor and S. Perfilov and E. Sánchez and A. Soleto and B. Ph. Van Milligen and A. Zhezhera and the TJ-II team},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1601.08153},
  year   = {2017}
}