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American Institute of Physics, Physics of Plasmas, 5(19), p. 052502

DOI: 10.1063/1.4714877

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Kinetic damping of resistive wall modes in ITER

Journal article published in 2012 by I. T. Chapman, Y. Q. Liu, O. Asunta, J. P. Graves, T. Johnson, M. Jucker ORCID
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Abstract

Full drift kinetic modelling including finite orbit width effects has been used to assess the passive stabilisation of the resistive wall mode (RWM) that can be expected in the ITER advanced scenario. At realistic plasma rotation frequency, the thermal ions have a stabilising effect on the RWM, but the stability limit remains below the target plasma pressure to achieve Q = 5. However, the inclusion of damping arising from the fusion-born alpha particles, the NBI ions, and ICRH fast ions extends the RWM stability limit above the target β for the advanced scenario. The fast ion damping arises primarily from finite orbit width effects and is not due to resonance between the particle frequencies and the instability.