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While much about Alfven eigenmode (AE) stability has been explored in previous and current tokamaks, open questions remain for future burning plasma experiments, especially regarding exact stability threshold conditions and related isotope…

The interaction of Alfv\'{e}n 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…

This paper presents results of extensive analysis of mode excitation observed during the operation of the Alfv\'{e}n Eigenmode Active Diagnostic (AEAD) in the JET tokamak during the 2019-2020 deuterium campaign. Six of eight toroidally…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-07-21 R. A. Tinguely , P. G. Puglia , N. Fil , S. Dowson , M. Porkolab , A. Fasoli , D. Testa , JET Contributors

In this paper, we report the novel experimental observation of both unstable and stable Toroidicity-induced Alfv\'en Eigenmodes (TAEs) measured simultaneously in a JET tokamak plasma. The three-ion-heating scheme (D-DNBI-3He) is employed to…

The aim of this study is to analyze the stability of Alfven Eigenmodes (AE) in the China Fusion Engineering Test Reactor (CFETR) plasma for steady state operations. The analysis is done using the gyro-fluid code FAR3d including the effect…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-04-18 J. Varela , J. Huang , D. A. Spong , J. Chen , V. Chan , L. Garcia , A. Wingen , Y. Ghai , Y. Zou

Alfven Eigenmodes (AE) can be destabilized by energetic particles in neutral beam injection (NBI) heated plasmas through inverse Landau damping and couplings with gap modes in the shear Alfven continua. We describe the linear evolution of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-10-11 J. Varela , D. Spong , L. Garcia

The aim of this study is to analyze the stability of the Alfven eigenmodes (AE) in the Chinese First Quasi-axisymmetric Stellarator (CFQS). The AE stability is calculated using the code FAR3d that solves the reduced MHD equations to…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-04-19 J. Varela , A. Shimizu , D. A. Spong , L. Garcia , Y. Ghai

A recent model coupling the shear-Alfv\'{e}n and acoustic continua, which depends strongly on the equilibrium shaping and on elongation in particular, is employed to explain the properties of Alfv\'{e}nic activity observed on JET plasmas…

Recent upgrades in H-1 power supplies have enabled the operation of the H-1 experiment at higher heating powers than previously attainable. A heating power scan in mixed hydrogen/helium plasmas reveals a change in mode activity with…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-11-22 M. J. Hole , B. D. Blackwell , G. Bowden , M. Cole , A. Konies , C. Michael , F. Zhao , S. R. Haskey

The aim of this study is to analyze the destabilization of Alfven Eigenmodes (AE) by multiple energetic particles (EP) species in DIII-D and LHD discharges. We use the reduced MHD equations to describe the linear evolution of the poloidal…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-06-14 J. Varela , D. A. Spong , L. Garcia , Y. Todo , J. Huang , M. Murakami

We report on first evidence of wave activity during neutral beam heating in KSTAR plasmas: 40 kHz magnetic fluctuations with a toroidal mode number of n=1. Our analysis suggests this a beta-induced Alfven eigenmode resonant with the q=1…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 M. J. Hole , C. M. Ryu , M. H. Woo , J. G. Bak , S E. Sharapov , M. Fitzgerald , the KSTAR team

To guide the experimental design of a linear plasma device for studying the interaction between energetic ions and Alfv\'{e}nic gap eigenmode (AGE), this work computes AGE referring to fusion conditions in a ultra-long large plasma cylinder…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-12-08 Lei Chang

Alfven Eigenmodes (AE) can be destabilized during ITER discharges driven by neutral beam injection (NBI) energetic particles (EP) and alpha particles. The aim of the present study is to analyze the AE stability of different ITER operation…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-06-14 J. Varela , D. A. Spong , L. Garcia

Toroidal Alfven eigenmodes (TAEs) excited in purely ohmically heated plasmas without any auxiliary heating have been identified for the first time in the SUNIST spherical tokamak. The TAE modes are observed during minor disruptions and have…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-12-26 Yangqing Liu , Yi Tan , Zhe Gao , Yuhong Xu , Youjun Hu , Song Chai , Yanzheng Jiang , Rui Ke , Heng Zhong , Wenhao Wang

Measurements are reported of electromagnetic emission close to the cyclotron frequency of energetic ions in JET plasmas heated by waves in the ion cyclotron range of frequencies (ICRF). Hydrogen was the majority ion species in all of these…

The excitation of toroidicity induced Alfv{\'e}n eigenmodes (TAEs) using prescribed external electromagnetic perturbations (hereafter ``antenna") acting on a confined toroidal plasma as well as its nonlinear couplings to other modes in the…

Neutral-beam-driven, sub-cyclotron compressional (CAE) and global (GAE) \Alfven eigenmodes are routinely excited in spherical tokamaks such as NSTX(-U) and MAST, have been observed on the conventional aspect ratio tokamak DIII-D, and may be…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-08-11 J. B. Lestz

Energetic particle populations in nuclear fusion experiments can destabilize Alfv\' en Eigenmodes through inverse Landau damping and couplings with gap modes in the shear Alfv\' en continua. We use the reduced MHD equations to describe the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-04-12 J. Varela , D. A. Spong , L. Garcia

The goal of magnetic fusion research is to extract the power released by fusion reactions and carried by the product of these reactions, liberated at energies of the order of a few MeV. The feasibility of fusion energy production relies on…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-12-15 Christine Nguyen

Recently-proposed tokamak concepts use magnetic fields up to 12 T, far higher than in conventional devices, to reduce size and cost. Theoretical and computational study of trends in plasma behavior with increasing field strength is critical…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-02-19 E. A. Tolman , N. F. Loureiro , P. Rodrigues , J. W. Hughes , E. S. Marmar
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