Abstract
Preliminary experiments were carried out in the Joint European Torus (JET) using 120 keV helium (He) neutral beam injection (NB1), Injected power levels up tn 5 MW with3He and 7 MW with4Hc, lasting up to 3 s were reached. The 3 s helium NBI produced efficient ion heating and similar global and local energy confinements to those obtained with deuterium (D) NBI, in both limiter and X-point plasma geometries, in L-mode and H-mode plasma regimes. The elimination of beam-plasma and beam- beam fusion reactions by replacing D NBI with He NBI extended the range for measuring ion temperatures with the JET neutron profile monitor and neutron spectrometers.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1371-1378 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue number | 8 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Aug 1992 |
| Externally published | Yes |