Alpha particle loss measurements and analysis in JET DT plasmas

Burning reactor plasmas will be self-heated by fusion born alpha particles from deuterium-tritium reactions. Consequently, a thorough understanding of the confinement and transport of DT-born alpha particles is necessary to maintain the plasma self-heating. Measurements of fast ion losses provide a...

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Veröffentlicht in:Nuclear fusion 2024-08, Vol.64 (9)
Hauptverfasser: Bonofiglo, Phillip, Kiptily, Vasily, Rivero-Rodriguez, Juan Francisco, Nocente, Massimo, Podesta, Mario, Štancar, Žiga, Poradzinski, Michal, Goloborodko, Victor, Sharapov, Sergei E., Fitzgerald, Michael, Dumont, Remi, Garcia, Jeronimo, Keeling, David, Frigione, Domenico, Garzotti, Luca, Rimini, Fernanda, Van Eester, Dirk, Lerche, Ernesto, Maslov, Mikhail
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Zusammenfassung:Burning reactor plasmas will be self-heated by fusion born alpha particles from deuterium-tritium reactions. Consequently, a thorough understanding of the confinement and transport of DT-born alpha particles is necessary to maintain the plasma self-heating. Measurements of fast ion losses provide a direct means to monitor alpha particle confinement. JET's 2021-2022 second experimental DT-campaign offers burning plasma scenarios with advanced fast ion loss diagnostics for the first time in nearly 25 years. Coherent and non-coherent alpha losses were observed due to a variety of low frequency MHD activity. This manuscript will present the loss mechanisms, spatial and pitch dependencies, scalings with plasma parameters, correlations with wall impurities, and magnitude of DT-alpha born losses.
ISSN:0029-5515