AN INVESTIGATION OF BEAM DRIVEN ALFVEN INSTABILITIES IN THE DIII-D TOKAMAK

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HEIDBRINK, WW [1 ]
STRAIT, EJ [1 ]
DOYLE, E [1 ]
SAGER, G [1 ]
SNIDER, RT [1 ]
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[1] UNIV CALIF IRVINE,DEPT PHYS,IRVINE,CA 92717
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10.1088/0029-5515/31/9/002
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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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Neutral beams were injected into low field (B = 0.7-1.0 T) deuterium plasmas in an attempt to destabilize toroidicity induced Alfven eigenmodes (TAE modes). When the parallel beam velocity approached the Alfven velocity and the volume averaged beam beta exceeded 2%, localized, propagating modes with n = 2-10 were observed. As much as 45% of the beam power was lost as a result of the modes. The threshold for TAE instability is at least one order of magnitude higher than that predicted by Fu and VanDam (Phys. Fluids B 1 (1989) 1949).
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