Title
Electron fishbones destabilized nonresonantly by lower hybrid current drive
Date Issued
01 August 2018
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Princeton University
Publisher(s)
American Institute of Physics Inc.
Abstract
Fishbone-type oscillations with poloidal and toroidal mode numbers m = 1, n = 1 have been observed during lower hybrid current drive (LHCD) in the Alcator C-Mod tokamak. At relatively high plasma density and collisionality, the driving mechanism appears to be the nonresonant destabilization of an m/n = 1/1 MHD resistive internal kink mode by the pressure of the suprathermal electrons produced by the LHCD rather than a wave-particle resonance between the mode and the fast electrons. Direct measurements of the fast electrons are consistent with nonresonant destabilization and saturation. The effects of the 1/1 mode kink displacement on the LHCD deposition and fast electron concentration lead to nonresonant saturation mechanisms that may also contribute to the saturation of resonant lower hybrid fishbones.
Volume
25
Issue
8
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Física de plasmas y fluídos
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85052559117
Source
Physics of Plasmas
ISSN of the container
1070664X
Sponsor(s)
The authors thank the Alcator C-Mod Team and P. T. Bonoli for their contributions and valuable discussions. This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science, Office of Fusion Energy Sciences, under Award Nos. DE-SC-0007883, DE-FC02-99ER54512, and DE-AC02-09CH11466. Data were obtained by courtesy of the Alcator C-Mod tokamak, a DOE Office of Science user facility.
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