Pellet-fueled I-mode plasmas in ASDEX Upgrade
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Abstract This letter reports on the efforts carried out at ASDEX Upgrade tokamak to integrate I-mode plasmas with pellet fueling and increase Greenwald fraction f GW , two important requirements for any DEMO operational scenario. For first time, stationary have been achieved core has increased up 0.8. Larger were not due technical constraints rather than a physics-based limit. Pellet-fueled exhibit enhanced edge density, while temperature are reduced. Nonetheless, normalized gradients remain I-mode-like, namely shallow density steep temperature. The energy confinement time is found obey distinct dependencies: < 0.4 it rises increasing > plateaus or even decreases pellet-fueled plasmas. Similarities Ohmic L-mode dependency discussed.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Nuclear Fusion
سال: 2023
ISSN: ['0029-5515', '1741-4326']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/1741-4326/acde8c