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Effects of High Energy Ions Accelerated in front of ICRF

Antennas in LHD

S. Masuzakion behalf of the LHD Experimental Group

National Insititute for Fusion Science

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Fast Wave Antennas (Loop Antenna)

– Installed from top and bottom ports

– Single strap loop• twisted to fit the LHD plasma shape

– Sizes of launcher• length 60cm• total width 46cm• center strap width 30cm

– Most parts are water cooled for steady state operation

– Radial antenna position is movable by 16cm

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Fast Wave Antenna (Loop Antenna)

3.5 U&L 4.5 U&L

7.5 U&L

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Achieved Pulse Length and Injected Power

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Experimental Condition for Minority Heating

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Localized heat load on divertor plates are observed during long pulse discharges, and it causes gradual

density increase and termination of discharge.

Hot spot is formed on a bottom divertor plate

Density and radiation power increased with hot spot formation, and discharge was terminated at last.

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Particle orbit calculation shows that accelerated ions in front of the antennas can slip out from divertor

trace

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The calculation well reproduces the observed image.

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Heat load and recycling increase is localized near ICRF antenna.

Toroidal distributions of temperature rise of divertor plates and Ha increase

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Other Heating Mode for Steady State Operation

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Summary• In LHD, ion cyclotron resonance for minority ion (prot

on) heating mode cross the ICRF antenna, and protons outside LCFS are accelerated just in front of antenna.

• The accelerated protons hit divertor plates locally, and rise the plates temperature. It causes density rise due to out-gassing, and terminates discharge.

• Particle orbit calculation well reproduce the localized heat load distribution.

• To mitigate the direct ion loss, other heating mode has been examined.

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Additional viewgraphs

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Hot spot on side protectors could be caused by RF sheath

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Damaged divertor plates distribution agree with the distribution of high energy proton dep

osition

Distribution of high energy proton deposition

Distribution of damaged divertor plates