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EPJ Web Conf.
Volume 277, 2023
21st Joint Workshop on Electron Cyclotron Emission and Electron Cyclotron Resonance Heating (EC21)
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Article Number | 02007 | |
Number of page(s) | 6 | |
Section | Experiment | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202327702007 | |
Published online | 23 February 2023 |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202327702007
Quantification of X3 absorption for ITER L-mode parameters in ASDEX Upgrade
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Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik, Garching, Germany
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ITER Organization, St. Paul lez Durance, France
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Plasma Science and Fusion Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA
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Istituto per la Scienza e tecnologia dei Plasmi, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Milano, Italy
* e-mail: joerg.stober@ipp.mpg.de
5 author list of H. Meyer et al. 2019 Nucl. Fusion 59 112014
6 author list of B. Labit et al. 2019 Nucl. Fusion 59 086020
Published online: 23 February 2023
For an early H-mode access in hydrogen, ITER considers operating at 1/3 of the full field using 170 GHz X-Mode for heating at the 3rd harmonic. The optical thickness for such a heating scheme depends on Te2. It is rather low in the ohmic phase (with Te about 1-2 keV), but reaches high single pass absorption for the strongly EC heated plasma with Te exceeding 10 keV. Launching ECRH into an ohmic plasma may trigger a boot-strap process on Te if the additional power absorption due to increasing Te exceeds the additional power losses due to increased transport (which often tends to increase with input power). In this contribution we present measurements of the X3 absorption for the parameter range relevant for ITER, i.e. ne 2 1019 m−3, Te 2 keV in order to back up theoretical estimates used for the modeling so far. In ASDEX Upgrade (AUG) such low densities cannot be reached in H-mode such that dominant heating with NBI is not an option. For moderate Te, it is also not an option to use X3 heating as main heating, due to the excessive stray radiation threatening in-vessel components. This dilemma is solved with the 2-frequency EC system of AUG. The main central heating is done with the lower frequency of 105 GHz at the 2nd harmonic and full single pass absorption. Up to 3.5 MW of ECRH are used at that frequency to vary Te. Two other gyrotrons are used at 140 GHz to probe the X3 interaction close to the plasma center with a sequence of short blips. The expected values of single pass absorption are calculated with TORBEAM and vary from 7% to 70%. Below 40% single pass absorption the non-absorbed power triggers an arc in the tile gaps of the inner heat shield which screens the thermo-couples from the incoming beam such that they cannot be used. Between 40% and 80% single pass absorption, the predictions and measurements agree within the uncertainty of the measurement, unless we have clear evidence for non-linear interactions, which are not described by TORBEAM and which are not expected in ITER, but are due to some specific experimental choices for an isolated subset of our results.
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