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Excitation of toroidal Alfvén eigenmodes with counter-current NBI in the TCV tokamak

Vallar, Matteo  
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Dreval, Mykola
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Garcia-Munoz, Manuel
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2023
Nuclear Fusion

In TCV, unstable modes excited by resonant interaction between the shear Alfvèn waves in con- tinuum gaps and energetic particles have been observed in scenarios with Neutral Beam Injection (NBI). TCV is a middle-size device (R 0 /a = 0.88/0.25) equipped with a 1 MW, 25 keV tangential neutral beam injector. In this paper the phenomenology of modes excited with on-axis NBI is presented. The Alfvènic nature of the modes has been confirmed investigating their sensitivity against plasma parameters such as NBI energy, toroidal magnetic field, and cross-checking with the predictions from linear kinetic stability code. The mode radial profile is estimated using Electron Cyclotron Emission mea- surement and agrees well with modelling results. In addition, the fast particle distribution function has been modeled using TRANSP/NUBEAM code. Even with counter-current NBI (leading to higher losses), the drive from the resonant particles is sufficient for the mode excitation. An ad-hoc additional diffusion model allows to estimate the fast particle transport, modifying the fast particle gradient at the mode location and matching the neutron rates.

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research article
DOI
10.1088/1741-4326/acb644
Author(s)
Vallar, Matteo  
Dreval, Mykola
Garcia-Munoz, Manuel
Sharapov, Sergei E
Poley, Jesus
Karpushov, Alexander N
Lauber, Philipp
Mazzi, Samuele  
Porte, Laurie
Corporate authors
TCV Team
Date Issued

2023

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IOP Publishing Ltd

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Nuclear Fusion
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January 31, 2023
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/194547
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