Journal
NUCLEAR FUSION
Volume 59, Issue 10, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1741-4326/ab2d02
Keywords
isotope effect; ion internal transport barrier; ion temperature gradient mode; helical/stellarator plasmas
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- National Institute for Fusion Science (NIFS) [NIFS17KLPR036, NIFS16KNST096, NIFS18KNXN369, NIFS16KNXN315, NIFS18KNST132]
- JSPS KAKENHI [JP17K14899]
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A remarkable extension of the high-ion-temperature (high-T-i) regime was obtained in deuterium plasma experiments in the Large Helical Device. In order to clarify transport characteristics in the ion internal transport barrier (ITB) formation with an isotope effect, a dataset of pure deuterium (n(D)/n(e) 0.8) and pure hydrogen (n(H)/n(e) > 0.8) plasmas in the high-T-i regime were analyzed, and two mechanisms of transport improvement were characterized. A significant reduction of ion heat transport in the core of both deuterium and hydrogen plasmas was observed, indicating ion ITB formation. The dependence of the ion heat diffusivity on temperature ratio (T-e/T-i) and normalized T-i-gradient (R/L-Ti = -(R/T-i)(dT(i)/dr)) was investigated in the core region, in which gyrokinetic simulations with the GKV code predict the destabilization of ion temperature gradient (ITG) modes. The T-e/T-i dependence shows ITG-like property, while a significant deviation from the ITG-like property is found in the R/L-Ti dependence, indicating suppression of the ITG mode in the large R/L-Ti regime and resultant ion ITB formation. In the comparison between deuterium plasma and hydrogen plasma, the lower transport in the deuterium plasma is observed in both ion and electron heat diffusivities, indicating a significant isotope effect. It was found with the nonlinear turbulent transport simulation with GKV that the zonal flow enhancement contributes to the ITG suppression in the deuterium plasma.
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