An investigation of beam driven Alfvén instabilities in the DIII-D tokamak
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- 1 September 1991
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Nuclear Fusion
- Vol. 31 (9) , 1635-1648
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0029-5515/31/9/002
Abstract
Neutral beams were injected into low field (B = 0.7-1.0 T) deuterium plasmas in an attempt to destabilize toroidicity induced Alfvén eigenmodes (TAE modes). When the parallel beam velocity approached the Alfvén velocity and the volume averaged beam beta exceeded 2%, localized, propagating modes with n = 2-10 were observed. As much as 45% of the beam power was lost as a result of the modes. The threshold for TAE instability is at least one order of magnitude higher than that predicted by Fu and VanDam (Phys. Fluids B 1 (1989) 1949).Keywords
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