New Measurements of Fast-ion Transport

ORAL

Abstract

Many new fast-ion diagnostics were commissioned during the 2010 campaign, including a scintillator-based fast-ion loss detector, high bandwidth neutral-particle analyzers and fast-ion $D_\alpha$ (FIDA) detectors, spectroscopic FIDA views that are sensitive to co-passing ions, and improved FIDA imaging capabilities. Fluctuations at mode frequencies are detected during Alfv\'en eigenmodes, neoclassical tearing modes, energetic-particle driven geodesic acoustic modes, and $q=2$ fishbones. The transport of passing and trapped ions differ at the sawtooth crash. Drift-wave transport is more evident in lower-energy channels than in higher-energy channels. High time resolution toroidal rotation measurements detect local sub-millisecond changes associated with non-ambipolar fast-ion transport.

*Supported by the US Department of Energy under SC-G903402, DE-FC02-04ER54698, and DE-AC02-09CH11466.

Authors

  • W.W. Heidbrink

    • University of California-Irvine
    • University of California, Irvine
    • UC Irvine
  • C.M. Muscatello

    • UC Irvine
  • D.C. Pace

    • UC-Irvine
  • Y.B. Zhu

    • UC Irvine
  • M.A. Van Zeeland

    • General Atomics
    • GA
  • R.K. Fisher

    • General Atomics
  • W.M. Solomon

    • PPPL
    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
  • M. Garcia-Munoz

    • IPP Garching