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PHYSICS OF PLASMAS
Volume 25, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
AIP Publishing
DOI: 10.1063/1.5016160
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- U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Fusion Energy Sciences [DE-FC02-04ER54698, DE-FG03-97ER54415, DE-AC52-07NA27344, DE-AC02-09CH11466, DE-FG02-94ER54235, DE-FG02-08ER54999]
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An engineering upgrade to the neutral beam system at the DIII-D tokamak [J. L. Luxon, Nucl. Fusion 42, 614 (2002)] enables time-dependent programming of the beam voltage and current. Initial application of this capability involves pre-programmed beam voltage and current injected into plasmas that are known to be susceptible to instabilities that are driven by energetic (E >= 40 keV) beam ions. These instabilities, here all Alfven eigenmodes (AEs), increase the transport of the beam ions beyond a classical expectation based on particle drifts and collisions. Injecting neutral beam power, P-beam >= 2MW, at reduced voltage with increased current reduces the drive for Alfvenic instabilities and results in improved ion confinement. In lower-confinement plasmas, this technique is applied to eliminate the presence of AEs across the mid-radius of the plasmas. Simulations of those plasmas indicate that the mode drive is decreased and the radial extent of the remaining modes is reduced compared to a higher beam voltage case. In higher-confinement plasmas, this technique reduces AE activity in the far edge and results in an interesting scenario of beam current drive improving as the beam voltage reduces from 80 kV to 65 kV. Published by AIP Publishing.
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