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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 127, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.127.025002
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- Euratom research and training programme [633053]
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The study predicts and observes the formation of a new type of transport barrier, F-ATB, in fusion plasmas. This barrier suppresses turbulent transport and increases the neoclassical counterpart while keeping overall fluxes at significantly reduced levels, achieved through realistic simulations of an ASDEX Upgrade discharge.
The key result of the present work is the theoretical prediction and observation of the formation of a new type of transport barrier in fusion plasmas, called F-ATB (fast ion-induced anomalous transport barrier). As demonstrated through state-of-the-art global electrostatic and electromagnetic simulations, the F-ATB is characterized by a full suppression of the turbulent transport-caused by strongly sheared, axisymmetric E x B flows-and an increase of the neoclassical counterpart, albeit keeping the overall fluxes at significantly reduced levels. The trigger mechanism is shown to be a mainly electrostatic resonant interaction between suprathermal particles, generated via ion-cyclotron-resonance heating, and plasma microturbulcncc. These findings are obtained by realistic simulations of the ASDEX Upgrade discharge No. 36637-properly designed to maximized the beneficial role of the wave-particle resonance interaction-which exhibits the expected properties of improved confinement produced by energetic particles.
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