High-Efficiency Plasma Refuelling by Pellet Injection from the Magnetic High-Field Side into ASDEX Upgrade

25 August 1997

journal article
research article
Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters

Vol. 79 (8) , 1487-1490
https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.79.1487

Abstract

High-efficiency refuelling of ELMy H-mode tokamak discharges with solid deuterium pellets injected from the magnetic high-field side is demonstrated. Compared to standard low-field side injection, the fuelling efficiency was enhanced by a factor of 4, the pellet penetration more than 2 times. This experimental result can be qualitatively explained by the magnetic force pushing a diamagnetic plasma cloud towards lower magnetic field, causing rapid particle loss for shallow low-field side injection, but enhancing fuelling efficiency and pellet penetration for high-field side injection.

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