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"Snowflake" H Mode in a Tokamak Plasma

Piras, F.  
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Coda, S.  
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Duval, B. P.  
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2010
Physical Review Letters

An edge-localized mode (ELM) H-mode regime, supported by electron cyclotron heating, has been successfully established in a snowflake (second-order null) divertor configuration for the first time in the TCV tokamak. This regime exhibits 2 to 3 times lower ELM frequency and 20% 30% increased normalized ELM energy ($Delta W_{ELM}/W_p$) compared to an identically shaped, conventional single-null diverted H mode. Enhanced stability of mid- to high-toroidal-mode-number ideal modes is consistent with the different snowflake ELM phenomenology. The capability of the snowflake to redistribute the edge power on the additional strike points has been confirmed experimentally.

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DOI
10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.155003
Web of Science ID

WOS:000282511800013

Author(s)
Piras, F.  
Coda, S.  
Duval, B. P.  
Labit, B.  
Marki, J.  
Medvedev, S. Yu
Moret, J.-M.  
Pitzschke, A.
Sauter, O.  orcid-logo
Corporate authors
TCV team
Date Issued

2010

Publisher

The American Physical Society

Published in
Physical Review Letters
Volume

105

Article Number

155003

Subjects

nuclear fusion

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Tokamak

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divertor

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H mode

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plasma

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http://crpplocal.epfl.ch/pinboard/jpapers/1002508.pdf
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October 9, 2010
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