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Semi-analytical inspection of the quasi-linear absorption of lower hybrid wave in presence of $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FC}$-particles in tokamak reactor

Part of: PLA 17th European Fusion Theory Conference Focus on Fusion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 October 2018

A. Cardinali Open the ORCID record for A. Cardinali [Opens in a new window] ,
C. Castaldo  and
R. Ricci
A. Cardinali*
Affiliation:
ENEA, Fusion and Nuclear Safety Department, C. R. Frascati, Via E. Fermi 45, 00044 Frascati (Roma), Italy
C. Castaldo
Affiliation:
ENEA, Fusion and Nuclear Safety Department, C. R. Frascati, Via E. Fermi 45, 00044 Frascati (Roma), Italy
R. Ricci
Affiliation:
ENEA, Fusion and Nuclear Safety Department, C. R. Frascati, Via E. Fermi 45, 00044 Frascati (Roma), Italy
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†Email address for correspondence: alessandro.cardinali@enea.it
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Abstract

In a reactor plasma like demonstration power station (DEMO), when using the radio frequency (RF) for heating or current drive in the lower hybrid (LH) frequency range (Franke et al., Fusion Engng Des., vol. 96–97, 2015, p. 46; Cardinali et al., Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion, vol. 59, 2017, 074002), a large fraction of the ion population (the continuously born $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FC}$-particle, and/or the neutral beam injection (NBI) injected ions) is characterized by a non-thermal distribution function. The interaction (propagation and absorption) of the LH wave must be reformulated by considering the quasi-linear approach for each species separately. The collisional slowing down of such an ion population in a background of an electron and ion plasma is balanced by a quasi-linear diffusion in velocity space due to the propagating electromagnetic wave. In this paper, both propagations are considered by including the ion distribution function, solution of the Fokker–Planck equation, which describes the collisional dynamics of the $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FC}$-particles including the effects of frictional slowing down, energy diffusion and pitch-angle scattering. Analytical solutions of the Fokker–Planck equation for the distribution function of $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FC}$-particles with a background of ions and electrons at steady state are included in the calculation of the dielectric tensor. In the LH frequency domain, ray tracing (including quasi-linear damping), can be analytically solved by iterating with the Fokker–Planck solution, and the interaction of the LH wave with $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FC}$-particles, thermal ions and electrons can be accounted self-consistently and the current drive efficiency can be evaluated in this more general scenario.

Keywords

fusion energyplasma heatingplasma physicsplasma wave physicstheory and numerical simulation
Type
Research Article
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Journal of Plasma Physics , Volume 84 , Issue 5 , October 2018 , 745840502
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© Cambridge University Press 2018 

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