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K. Tobita, Y. Kusama, K. Shinohara, T. Nishitani, H. Kimura, G. J. Kramer, M. Nemoto, T. Kondoh, T. Oikawa, A. Morioka, K. Hamamatsu, S. Wang, S. Takeji, M. Takechi, M. Ishikawa, K. Tani, M. Saigusa, T. Ozeki
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 42 | Number 2 | September-November 2002 | Pages 315-326
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST02-A231
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Energetic particle experiments in JT-60U are summarized, mainly covering ripple loss and Alfvén eigenmodes (AE modes). Significant loss was observed for 85 keV neutral beam injected (NBI) ions and fusion-produced tritons as toroidal field ripple at the plasma surface increased, especially in a reversed shear plasma. Measurement of hot spots on the first wall due to ripple loss confirmed agreement with code predictions, validating the modeling incorporated in an orbit-following Monte Carlo code. A variety of AE modes were destabilized in ion cyclotron range of frequencies (ICRF) minority heating and negative-ion-based NBI (N-NBI) heating. Most of the observed modes are gap modes identified to be toroidicity-induced, ellipticity-induced, and triangularity-induced AE modes. An interesting finding is pulsating modes accompanying frequency sweep, which were destabilized by N-NBI and sometimes induced a beam ion loss of up to 25%. Also presented are energetic particle issues in auxiliary heating with ICRF and N-NBI.