Title
Impurity transport studies in NSTX neutral beam heated H-mode plasmas
Date Issued
21 September 2009
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Stutman D.
Tritz K.
Finkenthal M.
Kaye S.
Bell R.
Kaita R.
Leblanc B.
Levinton F.
Menard J.
Paul S.
Smith D.
Yuh H.
Johns Hopkins University
Abstract
The first experimental assessment of low-Z impurity transport in a neutral beam heated, high-confinement H-mode plasma sustained in a low-field, low-aspect ratio spherical tokamak, was performed at the National Spherical Torus Experiment (NSTX). The injected impurities penetrate to the core on a hundred millisecond time scale, indicating a low core particle diffusivity (≲1 m2 s-1) in good agreement with the values predicted by neoclassical transport theory. In addition, a fixed q-profile magnetic field scan that showed reduced impurity penetration at high fields is also reported. This result suggests that anomalous ion particle transport associated with turbulent long-wavelength electrostatic instabilities must be largely suppressed in the NSTX core. © 2009 IAEA, Vienna.
Volume
49
Issue
8
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Electroquímica
Física de plasmas y fluídos
Física de partículas, Campos de la Física
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-70349086556
Source
Nuclear Fusion
ISSN of the container
17414326
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Directorio de Producción Científica
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