Energy Confinement Time and Heat Transport in Initial Neutral Beam Heated Plasmas on the Large Helical Device
Author(s) -
H. Yamada,
K. Y. Watanabe,
S. Sakakibara,
S. Murakami,
M. Osakabe,
O. Kaneko,
K. Narihara,
K. Tanaka,
K. Ida,
T. Minami,
M. Goto,
H. Idei,
S. Inagaki,
S. Kado,
K. Kawahata,
A. Komori,
S. Kubo,
J. Miyazawa,
T. Morisaki,
S. Morita,
H. Nakanishi,
S. Ohdachi,
N. Ohyabu,
Y. Oka,
B. J. Peterson,
R. Sakamoto,
M. Shoji,
Hidehiko Suzuki,
Y. Takeiri,
K. Toi,
T. Tokuzawa,
K. Tsumori,
Ippei Yamada,
K. Ohkubo,
S. Sudo,
K. Yamazaki,
O. Motojima,
M. Fujiwara,
LHD Experimental Group
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
physical review letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.688
H-Index - 673
eISSN - 1079-7114
pISSN - 0031-9007
DOI - 10.1103/physrevlett.84.1216
Subject(s) - large helical device , pedestal , plasma , atomic physics , scaling , beam (structure) , enhanced data rates for gsm evolution , core (optical fiber) , physics , materials science , stellarator , plasma confinement , neutral beam injection , energy transport , tokamak , nuclear physics , optics , telecommunications , geometry , mathematics , archaeology , engineering physics , computer science , history
The confinement characteristics of large net-current-free plasmas heated by neutral-beam injection have been investigated in the Large Helical Device (LHD). A systematic enhancement in energy-confinement times from the scaling derived from the medium-sized heliotron/torsatron experiments have been observed, which is attributed to the edge pedestal. The core confinement is scaled with the Bohm term divided by the square root of the gyro radii. The comparative analysis using a dimensionally similar discharge in the Compact Helical System indicates gyro-Bohm dependence in the core and transport improvement in the edge region of LHD plasmas.
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