HIGH BOOTSTRAP CURRENT ICRH PLASMAS IN JET

Citation
Cd. Challis et al., HIGH BOOTSTRAP CURRENT ICRH PLASMAS IN JET, Nuclear fusion, 33(8), 1993, pp. 1097-1105
Citations number
24
Categorie Soggetti
Phsycs, Fluid & Plasmas","Physics, Nuclear
Journal title
ISSN journal
00295515
Volume
33
Issue
8
Year of publication
1993
Pages
1097 - 1105
Database
ISI
SICI code
0029-5515(1993)33:8<1097:HBCIPI>2.0.ZU;2-Z
Abstract
High poloidal beta plasmas with a correspondingly high bootstrap fract ion of 70 +/- 15% have been produced using ion cyclotron resonance hea ting, in an ELM free H mode confinement regime. This regime is termina ted by a large edge instability, causing a reversion to L mode confine ment. Possible causes for this instability am discussed and the overal l implications of the results for steady state bootstrap dominated ope ration are examined.