L-H transition studies in tritium and deuterium-tritium campaigns at JET with Be wall and W divertor
Number of Authors: 862023 (English)In: Nuclear Fusion, ISSN 0029-5515, E-ISSN 1741-4326, Vol. 63, no 11, article id 112011Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
The recent deuterium-tritium campaign in JET-ILW (DTE2) has provided a unique opportunity to study the isotope dependence of the L-H power threshold in an ITER-like wall environment (Be wall and W divertor). Here we present results from dedicated L-H transition experiments at JET-ILW, documenting the power threshold in tritium and deuterium-tritium plasmas, comparing them with the matching deuterium and hydrogen datasets. From earlier experiments in JET-ILW it is known that as plasma isotopic composition changes from deuterium, through varying deuterium/hydrogen concentrations, to pure hydrogen, the value of the line averaged density at which the threshold is minimum, n ˉ e , min , increases, leading us to expect that n ˉ e , min (T) < n ˉ e , min (DT) < n ˉ e , min (D) < n ˉ e , min (H). The new power threshold data confirms these expectations in most cases, with the corresponding ordering of the minimum power thresholds. We present a comparison of this data to power threshold scalings, used for extrapolation to future devices such as ITER and DEMO.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
IOP Publishing , 2023. Vol. 63, no 11, article id 112011
Keywords [en]
DT, isotope, JET-ILW, L-H transition, power threshold, tokamaks, Tritium
National Category
Fusion, Plasma and Space Physics
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-339499DOI: 10.1088/1741-4326/acee12ISI: 001085129200001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85175398510OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-339499DiVA, id: diva2:1811819
Note
QC 20231114
2023-11-142023-11-142023-11-29Bibliographically approved