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American Institute of Physics, Physics of Plasmas, 4(20), p. 042112

DOI: 10.1063/1.4801663

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Non-linear modulation of short wavelength compressional Alfvén eigenmodes

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Abstract

Most Alfvénic activity in the frequency range between toroidal Alfvén eigenmodes and roughly one half of the ion cyclotron frequency on National Spherical Torus eXperiment [Ono et al., Nucl. Fusion 40, 557 (2000)], that is, approximately 0.3 MHz up to ≈1.2 MHz, are modes propagating counter to the neutral beam ions. These have been modeled as Compressional and Global Alfvén Eigenmodes (CAE and GAE) and are excited through a Doppler-shifted cyclotron resonance with the beam ions. There is also a class of co-propagating modes at higher frequency than the counter-propagating CAE and GAE. These modes have been identified as CAE, and are seen mostly in the company of a low frequency, n = 1 kink-like mode. In this paper, we present measurements of the spectrum of these high frequency CAE (hfCAE) and their mode structure. We compare those measurements to a simple model of CAE and present a predator-prey type model of the curious non-linear coupling of the hfCAE and the low frequency kink-like mode.