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IOP Publishing, Nuclear Fusion, 8(49), p. 085028, 2009

DOI: 10.1088/0029-5515/49/8/085028

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Impurity transport studies in NSTX neutral beam heated H-mode plasmas

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Abstract

The first experimental assessment of low-Z impurity transport in a neutral beam heated, high-confinement H-mode plasma sustained in a low-field, low-aspect ratio spherical tokamak, was performed at the National Spherical Torus Experiment (NSTX). The injected impurities penetrate to the core on a hundred millisecond time scale, indicating a low core particle diffusivity (≲1 m2 s−1) in good agreement with the values predicted by neoclassical transport theory. In addition, a fixed q-profile magnetic field scan that showed reduced impurity penetration at high fields is also reported. This result suggests that anomalous ion particle transport associated with turbulent long-wavelength electrostatic instabilities must be largely suppressed in the NSTX core.