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Effects of ECRH power and safety factor on laser blow-off injected impurity confinement in TCV

E Scavino1, J Bakos2, H Weisen1 and TCV Team1

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Evidence from injection into the TCV device of laser ablated, non-recycling silicon impurities shows that the transport of impurities confinement can be remarkably different from that of energy. The ratio of impurity to energy confinement times ranges from near unity in Ohmic discharges to 5 in the presence of high power ECCD. In Ohmic discharges in deuterium, above a threshold of density and of safety factor near q95 = 4.5, the impurity confinement time increases abruptly by a factor of 2 and is sometimes accompanied by indefinite retention of non-recycling impurities within the sawtooth mixing radius.


PACS

52.55.Fa Tokamaks, spherical tokamaks

52.50.Sw Plasma heating by microwaves; ECR, LH, collisional heating

52.25.Fi Transport properties

52.25.Vy Impurities in plasmas

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Plasma physics

Dates

Issue 5 (May 2004)

Received 19 January 2004

Published 5 April 2004



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