Abstract
Both global and thermal energy confinement improve in high-temperature supershot plasmas in the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor (TFTR) when deuterium beam heating is partially or wholly replaced by tritium beam heating. For the same heating power, the tritium-rich plasmas obtain up to 22% higher total energy, 30% higher thermal ion energy, and 20-25% higher central ion temperature. Kinetic analysis of the temperature and density profiles indicates a favorable isotopic scaling of ion heat transport and electron particle transport, with τEi(a/2) ∝ 〈A〉0.7-0.8 and τpe(a) ∝ 〈A〉0.8.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 394-401 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | Physica Scripta |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Mar 1 1995 |
| Externally published | Yes |