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Overview of fast particle experiments in the first MAST Upgrade experimental campaigns

Rivero-Rodriguez, J. F.
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McClements, K. G.
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Fitzgerald, M.
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August 1, 2024
Nuclear Fusion

MAST-U is equipped with on-axis and off-axis neutral beam injectors (NBI), and these external sources of super-Alfv & eacute;nic deuterium fast-ions provide opportunities for studying a wide range of phenomena relevant to the physics of alpha-particles in burning plasmas. The MeV range D-D fusion product ions are also produced but are not confined. Simulations with the ASCOT code show that up to 20% of fast ions produced by NBI can be lost due to charge exchange (CX) with edge neutrals. Dedicated experiments employing low field side (LFS) gas fuelling show a significant drop in the measured neutron fluxes resulting from beam-plasma reactions, providing additional evidence of CX-induced fast-ion losses, similar to the ASCOT findings. Clear evidence of fast-ion redistribution and loss due to sawteeth (ST), fishbones (FB), long-lived modes (LLM), Toroidal Alfv & eacute;n Eigenmodes (TAE), Edge Localised Modes (ELM) and neoclassical tearing modes (NTM) has been found in measurements with a Neutron Camera (NCU), a scintillator-based Fast-Ion Loss Detector (FILD), a Solid-State Neutral Particle Analyser (SSNPA) and a Fast-Ion Deuterium-alpha (FIDA) spectrometer. Unprecedented FILD measurements in the range of 1-2 MHz indicate that fast-ion losses can be also induced by the beam ion cyclotron resonance interaction with compressional or global Alfv & eacute;n eigenmodes (CAEs or GAEs). These results show the wide variety of scenarios and the unique conditions in which fast ions can be studied in MAST-U, under conditions that are relevant for future devices like STEP or ITER.

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research article
DOI
10.1088/1741-4326/ad56a2
Web of Science ID

WOS:001253509300001

Author(s)
Rivero-Rodriguez, J. F.
McClements, K. G.
Fitzgerald, M.
Sharapov, S. E.
Cecconello, M.
Crocker, N. A.
Dolby, I.
Dreval, M.
Fil, N.
Galdon-Quiroga, J.
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Corporate authors
EUROfusion Tokamak Exploitation
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MAST-U Team
Date Issued

2024-08-01

Publisher

IOP Publishing Ltd

Published in
Nuclear Fusion
Volume

64

Issue

8

Article Number

086025

Subjects

Physical Sciences

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Fusion

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Spherical Tokamak

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Fast-Ions

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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EPFL

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SPC  
FunderGrant Number

European Union via the Euratom Research and Training Programme

101052200

EPSRC

EP/W006839/1

Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI)

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July 3, 2024
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