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Comparison of runaway electron generation parameters in small, medium-sized and large tokamaks: a survey of experiments in COMPASS, TCV, ASDEX-Upgrade and JET

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dc.affiliation.dptoUC3M. Departamento de Físicaes
dc.affiliation.grupoinvUC3M. Grupo de Investigación: Física de Plasmases
dc.contributor.authorPlyusnin, V.V.
dc.contributor.authorMartín Solís, José Ramón
dc.contributor.funderEuropean Commissiones
dc.date.accessioned2020-06-01T07:14:46Z
dc.date.available2020-06-01T07:14:46Z
dc.date.issued2017-11-08
dc.descriptionDocumento escrito por un elevado número de autores/as, sólo se referencia el/la que aparece en primer lugar y los/as autores/as pertenecientes a la UC3M.es
dc.description.abstractThis paper presents a survey of the experiments on runaway electrons (RE) carried out recently in frames of EUROFusion Consortium in different tokamaks: COMPASS, ASDEX-Upgrade, TCV and JET. Massive gas injection (MGI) has been used in different scenarios for RE generation in small and medium-sized tokamaks to elaborate the most efficient and reliable ones for future RE experiments. New data on RE generated at disruptions in COMPASS and ASDEX-Upgrade was collected and added to the JET database. Different accessible parameters of disruptions, such as current quench rate, conversion rate of plasma current into runaways, etc have been analysed for each tokamak and compared to JET data. It was shown, that tokamaks with larger geometrical sizes provide the wider limits for spatial and temporal variation of plasma parameters during disruptions, thus extending the parameter space for RE generation. The second part of experiments was dedicated to study of RE generation in stationary discharges in COMPASS, TCV and JET. Injection of Ne/Ar have been used to mock-up the JET MGI runaway suppression experiments. Secondary RE avalanching was identified and quantified for the first time in the TCV tokamak in RE generating discharges after massive Ne injection. Simulations of the primary RE generation and secondary avalanching dynamics in stationary discharges has demonstrated that RE current fraction created via avalanching could achieve up to 70–75% of the total plasma current in TCV. Relaxations which are reminiscent the phenomena associated to the kinetic instability driven by RE have been detected in RE discharges in TCV. Macroscopic parameters of RE dominating discharges in TCV before and after onset of the instability fit well to the empirical instability criterion, which was established in the early tokamaks and examined by results of recent numerical simulations.en
dc.description.sponsorshipThis work has been carried out within the framework of the EUROFusion Consortium and has received funding from the EURATOM research and training programme 2014–2018 under grant agreement No 633053. IST activities also received financial support from "Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia" through project UID/FIS/50010/2013. A.E. Shevelev and E.M. Khilkevitch are grateful for financial support from the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation (Agreement No.14.619.21.0001, 15.08.2014, id RFMEFI61914X0001). The experiments on COMPASS were supported by the MEYS CR project No. LM2015045. The views and opinions expressed herein do not necessarily reflect those of the European Commission.en
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dc.identifier.bibliographicCitationNuclear Fusion, (2017), 58(1), 016014, pp.: 1-154.en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1088/1741-4326/aa8f05
dc.identifier.issn0029-5515
dc.identifier.publicationfirstpage1
dc.identifier.publicationissue1(016014)
dc.identifier.publicationlastpage15
dc.identifier.publicationtitleNuclear Fusionen
dc.identifier.publicationvolume58
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10016/30542
dc.identifier.uxxiAR/0000024705
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisherIOPen
dc.relation.projectIDinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/633053/EURATOMen
dc.rights© 2017 Instituto Superior Técnico.es
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dc.subject.ecienciaFísicaes
dc.subject.otherTokamaken
dc.subject.otherDisruptionsen
dc.subject.otherRunaway electronsen
dc.subject.otherHard X-raysen
dc.titleComparison of runaway electron generation parameters in small, medium-sized and large tokamaks: a survey of experiments in COMPASS, TCV, ASDEX-Upgrade and JETen
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