Article Dans Une Revue Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion Année : 2022

Transport and losses of fusion-born alpha particles in the presence of tearing modes using the new Toroidal Accelerated Particle Simulator (TAPaS)

Diego Del-Castillo-Negrete
Rémi Lacroix
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Pierre-Eric Bernard
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Stanislas Touzet
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Abstract The transport and losses of fusion-born alpha particles are studied in the presence of a single-helicity tearing mode, characterized by ( m = 2 , n = 1 ). The analysis is performed by means of the recently developed Toroidal Accelerated P a rticle Simulator ( TAPaS ). Although such modes have usually been believed to result only in a local flattening of the radial profiles, it is shown that the density profile can exhibit a global modification leading to significant losses of alpha particles. This is due to the fact that, although the magnetic field does not exhibit any chaotic behaviour, the trajectories of alpha particles do, as revealed by their Poincaré maps. Such results are in qualitative agreement with past observations and simulations of energetic particles generated by neutral beam injection in TFTR, DIII-D and AUG tokamaks. In-depth analysis is carried out to characterize the impact of the tearing mode on the transport and losses of fusion-born alpha-particles with a realistic density profile. The impact of the amplitude is evidenced. Moreover, the effect of the island rotation frequency is assessed based on a detailed analysis of the linear resonances in phase-space, in agreement with the simulation results. Finally, the probability density function of the exit time has been computed and the transport of alpha particles has been found to be anomalous.

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hal-03843243 , version 1 (08-11-2022)

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David Zarzoso, Diego Del-Castillo-Negrete, Rémi Lacroix, Pierre-Eric Bernard, Stanislas Touzet. Transport and losses of fusion-born alpha particles in the presence of tearing modes using the new Toroidal Accelerated Particle Simulator (TAPaS). Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 2022, 64 (4), pp.044003. ⟨10.1088/1361-6587/ac493a⟩. ⟨hal-03843243⟩
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