L-H transition studies in tritium and deuterium–tritium campaigns at JET with Be wall and W divertor

oleh: E.R. Solano, G. Birkenmeier, C. Silva, E. Delabie, J.C. Hillesheim, A. Baciero, I. Balboa, M. Baruzzo, A. Boboc, M. Brix, J. Bernardo, C. Bourdelle, I.S. Carvalho, P. Carvalho, C.D. Challis, M. Chernyshova, A. Chomiczewska, R. Coelho, I. Coffey, T. Craciunescu, E. de la Cal, E. de la Luna, R. Dumont, P. Dumortier, M. Fontana, J.M. Fontdecaba, L. Frassinetti, D. Gallart, J. Garcia, C. Giroud, W. Gromelski, R.B. Henriques, J. Hall, A. Ho, L.D. Horton, L. Horvath, P. Jacquet, I. Jepu, E. Joffrin, A. Kappatou, D.L. Keeling, D.B. King, V.G. Kiptily, K.K. Kirov, D. Kos, E. Kowalska-Strzęciwilk, M. Lennholm, E. Lerche, E. Litherland-Smith, A. Loarte, B. Lomanowski, P.J. Lomas, C.F. Maggi, J. Mailloux, M.J. Mantsinen, M. Maslov, A.G. Meigs, I. Monakhov, R.B. Morales, A.H. Nielsen, D. Nina, C. Noble, E. Pawelec, M. Poradzinski, G. Pucella, P. Puglia, D. Réfy, J. Juul Rasmussen, E. Righi, F.G. Rimini, T. Robinson, M. Sertoli, S.A. Silburn, G. Sips, P. Sirén, Ž. Štancar, H.J. Sun, G. Szepesi, D. Taylor, E. Tholerus, B. Thomas, G. Verdoolaege, P. Vincenzi, B. Viola, N. Vianello, T. Wilson, JET Contributors

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Diterbitkan: IOP Publishing 2023-01-01

Deskripsi

The recent deuterium–tritium campaign in JET-ILW (DTE2) has provided a unique opportunity to study the isotope dependence of the L-H power threshold in an ITER-like wall environment (Be wall and W divertor). Here we present results from dedicated L-H transition experiments at JET-ILW, documenting the power threshold in tritium and deuterium–tritium plasmas, comparing them with the matching deuterium and hydrogen datasets. From earlier experiments in JET-ILW it is known that as plasma isotopic composition changes from deuterium, through varying deuterium/hydrogen concentrations, to pure hydrogen, the value of the line averaged density at which the threshold is minimum, ${\bar n_{{\text{e}},{\text{min}}}}$ , increases, leading us to expect that ${\bar n_{{\text{e}},{\text{min}}}}$ (T) < ${\bar n_{{\text{e}},{\text{min}}}}$ (DT) < ${\bar n_{{\text{e}},{\text{min}}}}$ (D) < ${\bar n_{{\text{e}},{\text{min}}}}$ (H). The new power threshold data confirms these expectations in most cases, with the corresponding ordering of the minimum power thresholds. We present a comparison of this data to power threshold scalings, used for extrapolation to future devices such as ITER and DEMO.