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1. Publisher Correction

Author

M. N. A. Beurskens, Uwe Hergenhahn, M. Borchardt, H. M. Smith, K. J. Brunner, Kian Rahbarnia, D. Zhang, Ulrich Neuner, J. Baldzuhn, E. Pasch, J. Svensson, Sehyun Kwak, Tamara Andreeva, G. Fuchert, E. R. Scott, S. A. Bozhenkov, Felix Warmer, O. P. Ford, M. Hirsch, H. P. Laqua, Jonathan Schilling, R. Kleiber, U. Höfel, Thomas Sunn Pedersen, R. C. Wolf, Ye. O. Kazakov, H. Thomsen, Michael Drevlak, Torsten Stange, Andrea Pavone, Yuriy Turkin, Andreas Langenberg, M. Krychowiak, A. Alonso, J. Geiger, H. Damm, N. A. Pablant, Per Helander, C. D. Beidler, Science and Technology of Nuclear Fusion, and Turbulence in Fusion Plasmas

Subjects
Nuclear physics, Physics, Multidisciplinary, Wendelstein 7-X, Publisher Correction, Energy transport
Abstract

In the original version of this Article, in the fifth paragraph of the section titled “Qneo for W7-X discharge 20180918.045,” errors appeared in reference to the configurations shown in the curves of Fig. 3a and associated Fig. 3b−e panels. In the sentence originally reading “This comparison is provided in Fig. 3a for the configurations (Fig. 3b) W7-X standard, (Fig. 3c) W7-X high-mirror, (Fig. 3d) LHD R0 = 3.6 m, and (Fig. 3e) LHD R0 = 3.75 m....,” the references to Fig. 3b−e should instead have referred to the lettered curves “b,c,d,e” shown in the graph of Fig. 3a. The text has now been amended to read: “This comparison is provided in Fig. 3a for the configurations (b) W7-X standard, (c) W7-X high-mirror, (d) LHD R0 = 3.6 m, and (e) LHD R0 = 3.75 m….” Additionally, a member of the W7-X Team was incorrectly listed as “M. Sanchez”; their name has been corrected to “E. Sánchez.” The original Article has been corrected online.

Published
2021

2. First neutral beam experiments on Wendelstein 7-X

Author

Uwe Hergenhahn, Christian Brandt, P. Valson, Wendelstein X Team, E. Pasch, M. W. Jakubowski, P. Pölöskei, Nikolai B. Marushchenko, Aleix Puig Sitjes, Kian Rahbarnia, Kunihiro Ogawa, Manfred Thumm, L. Vano, Bernd Heinemann, Wolfgang Leonhardt, Dirk Hartmann, D. Mellein, Jonathan Schilling, Jörg Weggen, R. Riedl, Tamara Andreeva, Daniel Papenfuß, Adnan Ali, C. Slaby, Rouven Lang, R. Schroeder, Samuel Lazerson, R. Burhenn, Michael Drevlak, Torsten Stange, Birger Buttenschoゆ, A. Spanier, John Jelonnek, R. C. Wolf, R. Koenig, S. Wadle, T. Wegner, Martina Huber, G. M. Weir, H. Thomsen, Kai Jakob Brunner, Yu Gao, G. Fuchert, P. McNeely, E. R. Scott, R. Bussiahn, P. Traverso, N. Chaudhary, Holger Niemann, Stefan Illy, Theo Scherer, H. Damm, Christian Hopf, S. A. Bozhenkov, Gerd Gantenbein, O. P. Ford, Andreas Langenberg, M. N. A. Beurskens, Simppa Äkäslompolo, Ulrich Neuner, Yuriy Turkin, Naoki Tamura, Andrea Pavone, J. P. Knauer, Niek den Harder, Thorsten Kobarg, N. A. Pablant, U. Hoefel, N. Rust, Philipp Nelde, Department of Applied Physics, Aalto-yliopisto, Aalto University, and W7-X Team, Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Max Planck Society

Subjects
Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Technology, Fast ions, Condensed Matter Physics, 01 natural sciences, Neutral beam, 010305 fluids & plasmas, law.invention, Nuclear physics, law, 0103 physical sciences, Energetic particles, Wendelstein 7-X, 010306 general physics, Fusion, ddc:600, Stellarator, Beam (structure)
Abstract

In the previous divertor campaign, the Wendelstein 7-X (W7-X) device injected 3.6 MW of neutral beam heating power allowing for the achievement of densities approaching 2 × 1020 m−3, and providing the first initial assessment of fast ion confinement in a drift optimized stellarator. The neutral beam injection (NBI) system on W7-X is comprised of two beam boxes with space for four radio frequency sources each. The 3.6 MW of heating reported in this work was achieved with two sources in the NI21 beam box. The effect of combined electron-cyclotron resonance heating (ECRH) and NBI was explored through a series of discharges varying both NBI and ECRH power. Discharges without ECRH saw a linear increase in the line-integrated plasma density, and strong peaking of the core density, over the discharge duration. The presence of 1 MW of ECRH power was found to be sufficient to control a continuous density rise during NBI operation. Simulations of fast ion wall loads were found to be consistent with experimental infrared camera images during operation. In general, NBI discharges were free from the presence of fast ion induced Alfvénic activity, consistent with low beam betas. These experiments provide data for future scenario development and initial assessment of fast-ion confinement in W7-X, a key topic of the project.

Published
2021

3. Measurements of the parameter dependencies of the bootstrap current in the W7-X stellarator

Author

E. R. Scott, Uwe Hergenhahn, N. A. Pablant, H. Thomsen, J. P. Knauer, J. Svensson, U. Höfel, Andreas Langenberg, S. A. Bozhenkov, M. N. A. Beurskens, G. Fuchert, Ulrich Neuner, K. J. Brunner, Andrea Pavone, Torsten Stange, Yuriy Turkin, Jonathan Schilling, M. Krychowiak, E. Pasch, C. D. Beidler, J. Geiger, Andreas Dinklage, H. Damm, Tamara Andreeva, Kian Rahbarnia, H. Trimino Mora, Sehyun Kwak, and W7-X Team, Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Max Planck Society

Subjects
Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, law, 0103 physical sciences, Statistical physics, 010306 general physics, Condensed Matter Physics, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, Stellarator, 010305 fluids & plasmas, law.invention, Bootstrap current
Abstract

Intrinsic, diffusion-driven toroidal (bootstrap) currents between −7 and 17 kA were measured in the optimised stellarator Wendelstein 7-X (W7-X) for several magnetic configurations at line-integrated plasma densities between 2 × 1019 and 1.6 × 1020 m−2 and heating powers between 0.5 and 6 MW. The sign of the bootstrap current changes with field reversal, and its magnitude decreases with the mirror term and the rotational transform of the magnetic configuration as well as the line-integrated plasma density, and increases with the heating power. Both the absolute values and the dependencies agree with neoclassical calculations within their respective uncertainties, confirming the neoclassical optimisation of W7-X for small bootstrap currents.

Published
2021

4. Stellarator-tokamak energy confinement comparison based on ASDEX Upgrade and Wendelstein 7-X hydrogen plasmas

Author

P. A. Schneider, U. Stroth, J. P. Knauer, G. Birkenmeier, F. Günzkofer, G. Fuchert, E. R. Scott, D. Zhang, P. Hacker, O. J. W. F. Kardaun, Mst Team, M. N. A. Beurskens, Kian Rahbarnia, Kai Jakob Brunner, and MST1 Team

Subjects
Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Tokamak, Hydrogen, chemistry.chemical_element, Plasma, Condensed Matter Physics, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, 010305 fluids & plasmas, law.invention, Nuclear physics, ASDEX Upgrade, chemistry, law, 0103 physical sciences, Wendelstein 7-X, 010306 general physics, Stellarator, Energy (signal processing)
Abstract

A confinement database with mainly electron-heated hydrogen plasmas from ASDEX Upgrade and Wendelstein 7-X was assembled. Stellarator confinement scaling expressions describe both standard discharges in the stellarator and L-mode plasmas in the tokamak similarly well and indicate a similar quality of energy confinement in both devices. While the energy confinement time in ASDEX Upgrade benefits from the smaller aspect ratio of the device, the transport coefficients in Wendelstein 7-X appear to be smaller possibly due to reduced average magnetic field curvature. A physics based confinement scaling is derived from a model that successfully describes transport in tokamaks. The dimensionally correct scaling has very similar parameter dependencies as the stellarator scalings and reproduces also the trends in the data from ITER L- and H-mode databases reasonably well. On the basis of this scaling, which represents the confinement times of the present data base, average tokamak L-mode and H-mode confinement is 7% lower and 76% higher, respectively.

Published
2021

5. Overview of first Wendelstein 7-X high-performance operation

Author

V. Moncada, S. C. Liu, M. Winkler, P. Pölöskei, A. Tancetti, Naoki Tamura, H. Neilson, M. Krychowiak, Michael Drevlak, K. H. Schlüter, S. A. Henneberg, R. Vilbrandt, N. A. Pablant, M. Schröder, B. van Milligen, Bernd Heinemann, K. Rummel, Jonathan Schilling, Torsten Stange, G. Orozco, Christian Brandt, N. Krawczyk, Suguru Masuzaki, Yunfeng Liang, T. Estrada, Wolfgang Biel, J. H. Harris, B. Unterberg, M. Sleczka, M. Marushchenko, R. Lang, N. Rust, J. P. Kallmeyer, Laurie Stephey, P. Aleynikov, E. Blanco, Hans-Stephan Bosch, B. Buttenschön, D. Mellein, B. Shanahan, M. Vervier, M. Yokoyama, C. Suzuki, Seung Gyou Baek, A. Lücke, Felix Schauer, Ya. I. Kolesnichenko, V. Borsuk, Th. Rummel, B. Gonçalves, R. König, H. P. Laqua, G. Ehrke, K. J. McCarthy, Manfred Zilker, Venanzio Giannella, O. P. Ford, E. Flom, S. Murakami, Andreas Schlaich, P. Xanthopoulos, M. Zanini, E. Ascasíbar, C. Nührenberg, A. Carls, H. Viebke, Y. Feng, A. da Molin, H. Hunger, S. Paqay, Y. Wei, M. Blatzheim, M. W. Jakubowski, F. Köster, T. Wauters, J.C. Schmitt, M. Hubeny, P. van Eeten, H. Damm, Joris Fellinger, Gábor Cseh, Christoph Biedermann, G. Claps, L. Rudischhauser, R. Stadler, J. Mittelstaedt, Matteo Zuin, Z. Szökefalvi-Nagy, M. Knaup, Ch. Linsmeier, Francisco Castejón, J. P. Koschinsky, Bernardo B. Carvalho, L. Wegener, C. Guerard, J.M. Hernández Sánchez, B. Mendelevitch, A. Grosman, S. Pingel, Horacio Fernandes, M. Endler, N. Vianello, Jörg Schacht, Anett Spring, Yu Gao, V. Rohde, Samuel Lazerson, J.H. Matthew, W. Kasparek, R. Neu, R. Burhenn, N. Panadero, Jörg Weggen, P.A. Kurz, Walter H. Fietz, R. Schroeder, Andrea Pavone, G. Offermanns, Ryo Yasuhara, P. Sinha, Massimiliano Romé, José Luis Velasco, Carsten Killer, P. Drewelow, X. Han, T. Windisch, Nengchao Wang, Axel Könies, E.M. Edlund, K. P. Hollfeld, K. Aleynikova, Malte Henkel, Detlev Reiter, S. Brezinsek, Z. Huang, Heinz Grote, S. Langish, Matthias Otte, Alessandro Zocco, Daniel Papenfuß, G. Satheeswaran, Monika Kubkowska, S. Obermayer, G. A. Wurden, Carsten Lechte, F. Wagner, M. Gruca, H. Zhang, Olaf Neubauer, Peter Traverso, T. Ngo, V. Bykov, E. Sánchez, Matt Landreman, Dirk Naujoks, I. Vakulchyk, Andreas Langenberg, E. Wang, B. Hein, I. Ksiazek, S. Valet, Mark Cianciosa, G. Schlisio, Taina Kurki-Suonio, Oliver Schmitz, Adnan Ali, F. Reimold, Shinsuke Satake, Luis Vela Vela, C. Slaby, F. Remppel, David Gates, S. Schmuck, B. Roth, Zhirui Wang, Heinrich P. Laqua, F. Schluck, Olaf Grulke, S. Wadle, A. Runov, Manfred Thumm, Florian Effenberg, G. Fuchert, A. Vorköper, M. Banduch, Jonathan T. Green, J. Nührenberg, F. V. Chernyshev, H. Braune, Ewa Pawelec, David Maurer, A. Winter, A. Charl, Hiroshi Kasahara, T. Mizuuchi, D. Zhang, D. Höschen, J. Riemann, Thomas Klinger, W. Leonhardt, S. Sipliä, Katsumi Ida, T. Jesche, G. Pelka, U. Stridde, Riccardo Nocentini, Alexandra M. Freund, P. McNeely, A. Gogoleva, Victoria Winters, V. Szabó, Wolf-Dieter Schneider, D. A. Hartmann, Fabian Wilde, H. Schumacher, J. Howard, A. van Vuuren, J.L. Terry, M. Nagel, C. Hidalgo, Georg Kühner, S. Wolf, Boyd Blackwell, Michael Cole, Barbara Cannas, D. Rondeshagen, P. Hacker, Torsten Bluhm, J. Kacmarczyk, Kunihiro Ogawa, A. Zeitler, I. Yamada, P. Rong, Tamara Andreeva, Hiroshi Yamada, G. Anda, N. Panadero Alvarez, Wilfried Behr, F. Purps, H. Esteban, Dag Hathiramani, R. Bussiahn, David Ennis, A. H. Reiman, D. R. Mikkelsen, M. Borchardt, B. Israeli, M. Grahl, M. Losert, T. Dittmar, E. Pasch, U. Kamionka, Toru Ii Tsujimura, Gabriel G. Plunk, Felix Warmer, Jeremy Lore, F. Durodié, M. Balden, B.J. Peterson, J.P. Bähner, R. Schrittwieser, Morten Stejner, M.J. Cole, S. Zoletnik, Kian Rahbarnia, O. Marchuk, T. Bräuer, M. Hirsch, R. Riedl, W. Figacz, H. Trimino Mora, S. Degenkolbe, H. Greuner, B. Böswirth, B. Schweer, Dorothea Gradic, S. B. Ballinger, S. Ryosuke, B. Missal, Jiawu Zhu, J. H. E. Proll, M. Czerwinski, A. Cappa, B. Wiegel, J. Loizu Cisquella, Per Helander, Sehyun Kwak, S. Marsen, L. Carraro, T. Ilkei, D. Pilopp, Gábor Náfrádi, S. Récsei, M. Houry, A. de la Peña, Yu. Turkin, T.A. Scherer, T. Schröder, A. Galkowski, P. Drews, H. Frerichs, Benedikt Geiger, A. Krämer-Flecken, M. Dibon, L.-G. Böttger, A. Czarnecka, R. Krampitz, J. Wendorf, N. Chaudhary, T. Kremeyer, A. da Silva, R. Kleiber, R. Sakamoto, J.-M. Travere, I. Abramovic, T. Funaba, Andreas Meier, Fabio Pisano, Holger Niemann, Mirko Salewski, R. Brakel, M. Mayer, X. Huang, Stefan Illy, Ph. Mertens, Naoki Kenmochi, F. Köchl, Peter Lang, J. Geiger, Albert Mollén, A. Hölting, T. Barbui, M. Lennartz, T. Szabolics, Hayato Tsuchiya, S. Renard, A. Lorenz, J. Krom, C. D. Beidler, J. Cai, Andreas Dinklage, Anne White, Ye. O. Kazakov, P. Junghanns, W. Spiess, J. M. García Regaña, S. Elgeti, J. W. Coenen, Thomas Sunn Pedersen, C. Li, T. Mönnich, Miklos Porkolab, R. Laube, Burkhard Plaum, A. Benndorf, Michael Kramer, J. Ongena, J. Svensson, Dmitry Moseev, U. Wenzel, Chandra Prakash Dhard, S. Tulipán, M. C. Zarnstorff, M. Sibilia, A. von Stechow, G. M. Weir, H. Maaßberg, U. Höfel, P. Scholz, Alexey Mishchenko, R. C. Wolf, D. Carralero, G. Kocsis, Ivan Calvo, J. Tretter, Didier Chauvin, Y. Li, J. Boscary, A. Puig Sitjes, Fumimichi Sano, Andrey Samartsev, Tamás Szepesi, A. Kirschner, Dirk Nicolai, Francesco Cordella, M. Rack, A. Alonso, G. Czymek, E. R. Scott, M. E. Puiatti, Stefan Kragh Nielsen, M. Vergote, H. Schmitz, H. Jenzsch, Donald A. Spong, K. Czerski, A. Knieps, Arnold Lumsdaine, L. Ryć, M. N. A. Beurskens, Matthias F. Schneider, Simppa Äkäslompolo, Ulrich Neuner, V. Perseo, Jim-Felix Lobsien, Gerd Gantenbein, Roberto Guglielmo Citarella, L. Pacios Rodriguez, L. Vano, S. Bozhenkov, J. W. Oosterbeek, H. Röhlinger, J. P. Knauer, T. Nishizawa, A.H. Wright, M. Jia, A. Goriaev, H. Brand, D. Böckenhoff, H. M. Smith, J. P. Thomas, T. Fornal, J. Baldzuhn, D. Loesser, K. Risse, John Jelonnek, T. Wegner, S. Jablonski, Martina Huber, V. V. Lutsenko, S. Sereda, J. Ölmanns, Tomohiro Morisaki, H. Thomsen, J. A. Alcuson, P. Kornejew, J M Fontdecaba, Kai Jakob Brunner, A. Werner, T. Kobarg, European Commission, University of Greifswald, Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Technical University of Denmark, Princeton University, National Institute for Fusion Science, CIEMAT, EURATOM HAS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Research Center Julich, Australian National University, Eindhoven University of Technology, University of Cagliari, Consorzio RFX, Universidade de Lisboa, CEA Cadarache, St. Petersburg Scientific Centre, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, University of Salerno, ENEA Frascati Research Center, Institute of Plasma Physics and Laser Microfusion, University of Szczecin, University of Milano-Bicocca, Auburn University, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, University of Stuttgart, Austrian Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Sciences Ukraine, Technical University of Berlin, Opole University of Technology, Fusion and Plasma Physics, University of Maryland College Park, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Kyoto University, Culham Centre for Fusion Energy, Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Department of Applied Physics, Aalto-yliopisto, and Aalto University

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Technology, CONFINEMENT, 01 natural sciences, impurities, 010305 fluids & plasmas, law.invention, ECR heating, Divertor, DENSITY LIMIT, law, Data_FILES, GeneralLiterature_REFERENCE(e.g.,dictionaries,encyclopedias,glossaries), 004 Datenverarbeitung, Informatik, Physics, Glow discharge, Condensed Matter Physics, Content (measure theory), ComputingMethodologies_DOCUMENTANDTEXTPROCESSING, Electron temperature, Atomic physics, ddc:620, Stellarator, Impurities, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Technology and Engineering, plasma performance, chemistry.chemical_element, Atmospheric-pressure plasma, PHYSICS, stellarator, Physics::Plasma Physics, NBI heating, 0103 physical sciences, divertor, 010306 general physics, Helium, Plasma performance, turbulence, Física, W7-X, Turbulence, TheoryofComputation_MATHEMATICALLOGICANDFORMALLANGUAGES, chemistry, ddc:004, ddc:600, Energy (signal processing), SYSTEM
Abstract

The optimized superconducting stellarator device Wendelstein 7-X (with major radius , minor radius , and plasma volume) restarted operation after the assembly of a graphite heat shield and 10 inertially cooled island divertor modules. This paper reports on the results from the first high-performance plasma operation. Glow discharge conditioning and ECRH conditioning discharges in helium turned out to be important for density and edge radiation control. Plasma densities of with central electron temperatures were routinely achieved with hydrogen gas fueling, frequently terminated by a radiative collapse. In a first stage, plasma densities up to were reached with hydrogen pellet injection and helium gas fueling. Here, the ions are indirectly heated, and at a central density of a temperature of with was transiently accomplished, which corresponds to with a peak diamagnetic energy of and volume-averaged normalized plasma pressure . The routine access to high plasma densities was opened with boronization of the first wall. After boronization, the oxygen impurity content was reduced by a factor of 10, the carbon impurity content by a factor of 5. The reduced (edge) plasma radiation level gives routinely access to higher densities without radiation collapse, e.g. well above line integrated density and central temperatures at moderate ECRH power. Both X2 and O2 mode ECRH schemes were successfully applied. Core turbulence was measured with a phase contrast imaging diagnostic and suppression of turbulence during pellet injection was observed.

Published
2019
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6. Erratum: Measurements of visible bremsstrahlung and automatic Bayesian inference of the effective plasma charge Zeff at W7-X

Author

M. Beurskens, Uwe Hergenhahn, Andrea Pavone, L. Vano, J. Svensson, Florian Effenberg, Victoria Winters, D. Zhang, M. Krychowiak, J. P. Knauer, E. Pasch, R. C. Wolf, R. Koenig, G. Fuchert, E. R. Scott, M. Hirsch, O. P. Ford, P. Kornejew, K. J. Brunner, Sehyun Kwak, and U. Hoefel

Subjects
Physics, Bremsstrahlung, Charge (physics), Plasma, Bayesian inference, Instrumentation, Mathematical Physics, Computational physics
Published
2020

7. Demonstration of an absolute Rayleigh scattering spectral calibration on the W7-X Thomson scattering system

Author

S. A. Bozhenkov, G. Fuchert, E. R. Scott, Philipp Nelde, M. Hirsch, E. Pasch, M. N. A. Beurskens, and R. C. Wolf

Subjects
010309 optics, Physics, symbols.namesake, Thomson scattering, Calibration (statistics), 0103 physical sciences, symbols, Rayleigh scattering, 01 natural sciences, Instrumentation, Mathematical Physics, 010305 fluids & plasmas, Computational physics
Published
2019

8. Erratum: Measurements of visible bremsstrahlung and automatic Bayesian inference of the effective plasma charge Zeff at W7-X [Journal of Instrumentation 15, e02002 (2020)]

Author

R. Koenig, U. Hoefel, M. Hirsch, P. Kornejew, O. P. Ford, Uwe Hergenhahn, R. C. Wolf, Kai Jakob Brunner, Sehyun Kwak, L. Vano, Florian Effenberg, J. Svensson, J. P. Knauer, E. Pasch, Andrea Pavone, G. Fuchert, E. R. Scott, Victoria Winters, M. Krychowiak, D. Zhang, and M. N. A. Beurskens

Subjects
Physics, Electron density, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Thomson scattering, Bremsstrahlung, Electron, Plasma, 01 natural sciences, Effective nuclear charge, 030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging, Computational physics, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, 0103 physical sciences, Electron temperature, Instrumentation, Mathematical Physics, Line (formation)
Abstract

The effective charge Zeff indicates the overall impurity contamination of a plasma. Zeff can be derived experimentally from the intensity of the plasma bremsstrahlung emission. We describe here the diagnostic set-ups and the Bayesian modeling allowing the inference of Zeff at W7-X. First results from the operational campaigns in 2017 and 2018 are shown. Measurements of the visible plasma radiation along a single line-of-sight traversing the core plasma has been carried out using a compact USB-spectrometer with a time resolution of 100 ms. A spectral region (627–641 nm) that is free from line emission is selected for the analysis of the bremsstrahlung emission, which also depends on electron temperature and density profiles. Electron temperature profiles are derived from either the electron cyclotron emission or the Thomson scattering diagnostic. Electron density profiles, however, have their shape information derived from Thomson scattering measurements and absolute values from single line-of-sight interferometry measurements. The Minerva framework is used to infer the profiles with Gaussian processes and develop a Bayesian model of the bremsstrahlung emission to infer line averaged Zeff. The sensitivity of the diagnostic enables Zeff measurements down to the lowest core electron densities observed in the last campaign of 0.75×1019 m−3 with a statistical relative error of ≈50% (Zeff = 3.2, 100 ms integration time). The analysis is automated to routinely compute Zeff after every plasma discharges.

Published
2019

9. Pellet fueling experiments in Wendelstein 7-X

Author

Kian Rahbarnia, Ye. O. Kazakov, N. A. Pablant, Tamás Szepesi, M. N. A. Beurskens, G. Kocsis, F. Köchl, Thomas Sunn Pedersen, C. D. Beidler, Yuriy Turkin, A. von Stechow, G. A. Wurden, H. Damm, J. Baldzuhn, Kieran J. McCarthy, Peter Lang, Bernhard Ploeckl, S. A. Bozhenkov, M. Dibon, D. Zhang, J. Geiger, Andreas Langenberg, Victoria Winters, U. Höfel, H. P. Laqua, E. Pasch, Olaf Grulke, F. Wagner, Thomas Klinger, J. P. Knauer, G. Fuchert, E. R. Scott, P. Kornejew, Kai Jakob Brunner, Torsten Stange, N. Panadero, Wendelstein X Team, G. Schlisio, Christoph Biedermann, and W7-X Team, Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Max Planck Society

Subjects
Physics, Nuclear Energy and Engineering, Nuclear engineering, 0103 physical sciences, Pellet, Wendelstein 7-X, 010306 general physics, Condensed Matter Physics, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, 010305 fluids & plasmas
Abstract

During the two most recent experimental campaigns in the advanced stellarator Wendelstein 7-X (W7-X) (Klinger et al 2017 Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion 59 014018; Bosch et al 2017 Nucl. Fusion 57 116015; Wolf et al 2017 Nucl. Fusion 57 102020; Pedersen et al 2017 Phys. Plasmas 24 0555030) hydrogen ice pellet injection was performed for the first time. In order to investigate the potential of pellet fueling in W7-X and to study the particle deposition in a large stellarator, a blower-gun system was installed with 40 pellets capability. The experience gained with this system will be used for the specification of a future steady-state pellet injector system. One important motivation for a pellet injector (Dibon 2014 Master-Thesis Technical University Munich, Max-Planck Institut IPP) on W7-X is the mitigation of hollow density profiles expected in case of predominant neoclassical transport. For long-pulse operation of up to 30 min, only electron cyclotron resonance heating is available on W7-X. Hence, pellet injection will be the only source for deep particle fueling. Deep particle fueling by pellets in tokamaks is supported by a grad-B drift, if the pellets are injected from the magnetic high-field-side. This approach was tested in W7-X, as well. The injection of series of pellets was also tested. Here, deep fueling is supported for later pellets in the series by the plasma cooling following the initial pellets in the same series. As in earlier experiments in the heliotron LHD (Takeiri et al 2017 Nucl. Fusion 57 102023), deep and rapid fueling could be achieved successfully in W7-X.

Published
2019

10. The He/Ne beam diagnostic for line-ratio spectroscopy in the island divertor of Wendelstein 7-X

Author

S. A. Bozhenkov, S. Zoletnik, E. Pasch, J. M. Munoz Burgos, T. Barbui, R. König, Kenneth Hammond, M. Vecsei, Philipp Drews, Oliver Schmitz, G. Fuchert, E. R. Scott, Carsten Killer, M. W. Jakubowski, C. Favreau, Florian Effenberg, E. Flom, Stuart Loch, M. Krychowiak, and W7-X Team, Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Max Planck Society

Subjects
Materials science, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Divertor, chemistry.chemical_element, 01 natural sciences, 030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging, law.invention, Computational physics, 03 medical and health sciences, symbols.namesake, Neon, 0302 clinical medicine, chemistry, law, 0103 physical sciences, Rydberg formula, symbols, Wendelstein 7-X, Spectroscopy, Instrumentation, Mathematical Physics, Beam (structure), Stellarator, Helium
Abstract

a versatile gas injection system and an absolute calibrated spectroscopic observation system with more than 200 lines-of-sight have been installed in two divertor locations in the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator. This powerful setup enables among other measurements to infer Te and ne in the divertor region by means of line-ratio spectroscopy on thermal helium. This is a robust and routinely used diagnostic at W7-X and this work describes its main characteristics and shows some examples of Te and ne profiles. In particular it is shown that the inclusion of high Rydberg states in the helium collisional-radiative model is necessary to obtain a realistic estimate of Te. The applicability of the diagnostic is currently being extended towards the low Te and high ne conditions occurring during detachment by means of line-ratio spectroscopy on neon. Initial Te, ne profiles obtained with a neon-beam are here presented.

Published
2019

11. Dynamics and dependencies of the configuration-dependent 1–2 kHz fluctuation in W7-X

Author

Carsten Killer, Kian Rahbarnia, J. P. Knauer, Tamás Szepesi, G. Kocsis, Jonathan Schilling, E. Pasch, J.L. Terry, M. N. A. Beurskens, H. Thomsen, Seung Gyou Baek, S. B. Ballinger, K. J. Brunner, Olaf Grulke, G. A. Wurden, L. Zsuga, G. Fuchert, E. R. Scott, A. von Stechow, and W7-X Team, Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Max Planck Society

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010302 applied physics, Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Toroid, Plasma parameters, Materials Science (miscellaneous), Divertor, TK9001-9401, 01 natural sciences, 010305 fluids & plasmas, Magnetic field, symbols.namesake, Full width at half maximum, Nuclear Energy and Engineering, Electromagnetic coil, 0103 physical sciences, symbols, Nuclear engineering. Atomic power, Diamagnetism, Langmuir probe, Atomic physics
Abstract

A 1-2 kHz electromagnetic mode is present in a large fraction of W7-X discharges in the standard magnetic field configurations with 5/5 edge island structure. The power in the mode is significantly reduced in other magnetic configurations. The mode can appear spontaneously and persist for the full duration of a discharge. Its full width at half maximum is typically 100-300 Hz. The 1-2 kHz mode was first observed in visible light emissions from the divertor [1] . Matching spectral peaks were found in measurements of both global and edge plasma parameters, including line-integrated density, diamagnetic energy, and edge floating potential and ion saturation current [2] . An infrared camera recording shows a temperature modulation of ∼2.5 K due to this mode on a divertor tile where the average temperature was 600 °C. Separate correlation analyses of the high-speed camera recordings, Langmuir probe signals, and Mirnov coil signals all indicate a poloidal velocity of 0.5-10 km/s and m=2 as a likely poloidal mode number. Langmuir probes mounted on the Multi-Purpose Manipulator show that the fluctuation is present in one of the magnetic islands over a radial distance of at least 5 millimeters. A database of various diagnostic measurements and dB/dt signals from a Mirnov coil was created using a majority of the discharges from the 2018 campaign on W7-X, in order to shed light on the plasma parameters that are correlated with the existence of the 1-2 kHz mode. The power in the mode is positively correlated to the toroidal current, total external heating power, and core electron temperature. It is negatively correlated with plasma density.

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