Profile control experiments in JET using off-axis lower hybrid current drive
- 1 September 1998
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Nuclear Fusion
- Vol. 38 (9) , 1397-1407
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0029-5515/38/9/314
Abstract
In lower hybrid current drive (LHCD) experiments in JET, up to 7.3 MW of lower hybrid (LH) power has been coupled to X point plasmas, resulting in sawtooth suppression and full current drive up to 3 MA. The current drive efficiency reached ηCD = 0.26 × 1020 m-2A/W in these experiments. The LH power deposition and driven current profiles can be quite well reproduced with the ray tracing and Fokker-Planck code in JET, even when multipass absorption of the LH wave is dominant. Profile control with off-axis LHCD has been used for increasing q above 1, thereby suppressing sawteeth before the edge localized mode (ELM)-free hot ion H mode. In optimized shear plasmas, a broad q profile with central negative shear was formed with moderate LH power (~2 MW), applied in the low density phase during the current rampup. An internal transport barrier with improved electron confinement was produced, which resulted in a peaking of the electron temperature profile and Te0 up to 10 keV at ne0 ≤ 1.5 × 1019 m-3.Keywords
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