Alpha particle-driven toroidal Alfven eigenmodes in Tokamak Fusion Test reactor deuterium-tritium plasmas: Theory and experiments

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Fu, GY [1 ]
Nazikian, R [1 ]
Budny, R [1 ]
Chang, Z [1 ]
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[1] Princeton Univ, Princeton Plasma Phys Lab, Princeton, NJ 08543 USA
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10.1063/1.873165
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O35 [流体力学]; O53 [等离子体物理学];
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070204 ; 080103 ; 080704 ;
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The toroidal Alfven eigenmodes (TAE) in the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor [K. Young et al., Plasma Phys. Controlled Fusion 26, 11 (1984) deuterium-tritium plasmas are analyzed using the NOVA-K code [C.Z. Cheng, Phys. Rep. 211, 1 (192)]. The theoretical results are compared with the experimental measurements in detail. In most cases, the theory agrees with the observations in terms of mode frequency, mode structure and mode stability. However, one mode with toroidal mode number n = 2 is observed to be poloidally localized on the high field side of the magnetic axis with a mode frequency substantially below the TAE frequency. (C) 1998 American Institute of Physics. [S1070-664X(98)02412-4].
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