Suppression of first-wall interaction in negative triangularity plasmas on TCV
Magnetically confined fusion plasmas with negative triangularity ( δ ) exhibit greater L-mode confinement than with positive δ . Recent experiments in the TCV and DIII-D tokamaks have correlated the confinement improvement to a reduction of fluctuations within the plasma core. We report on fluctuati...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Nuclear fusion 2021-03, Vol.61 (3), p.34003 |
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Zusammenfassung: | Magnetically confined fusion plasmas with negative triangularity (
δ
) exhibit greater L-mode confinement than with positive
δ
. Recent experiments in the TCV and DIII-D tokamaks have correlated the confinement improvement to a reduction of fluctuations within the plasma core. We report on fluctuation measurements in the scrape-off layer (SOL) for −0.61 <
δ
< +0.64 in limited and diverted ohmic L-mode plasmas; these reveal a strong reduction in SOL fluctuation amplitudes at
δ
≲ −0.25, and, surprisingly, an almost full suppression of plasma interaction with the main-chamber first-wall, which could have important implications for the prospects of using negative
δ
plasmas as a reactor solution. An exploration of several physical mechanisms suggests that a reduced connection length—intrinsic to negative
δ
plasmas—plays a critical role in the origin of this phenomenon. |
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ISSN: | 0029-5515 1741-4326 |
DOI: | 10.1088/1741-4326/abdb95 |