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Study of runaway electron transport in the presence of magnetic perturbations in COMPASS: theory and simulations
Oral
Andrea Casolari (IPP Prague)
Eva Macusova, Jaroslav Cerovsky, Ondrej Ficker, Jan Mlynar, Marco Gobbin, Gianluca Spizzo
Abstract
Runaway electron (RE) transport is affected by the presence of magnetic perturbations, either caused by internal MHD activity or externally imposed by magnetic coils (RMPs) [1]. During a typical tokamak discharge, different degrees of magnetic stochasticity are present in the plasma volume, which make the ordinary diffusive approach inadequate to the study of transport [2]. In this contribution, the fractional character of RE transport and the diffusion coefficient are evaluated in the flat-top phase of typical circular COMPASS discharges, where some internal MHD activity is observed in the form of magnetic islands, by using the guiding-center particle code ORBIT [3]. The results of particle simulations are compared with estimates from a magnetic diffusion model, and the time evolution of an initial RE beam distribution is studied by using a fractional diffusion model. Attempts to determine the parametric dependence of RE diffusion coefficient on amplitude and spectrum of the perturbation and on particle energy are ongoing.
[1] O. Ficker et al., Nucl. Fusion 57 076002 (2017)
[2] D. del Castillo-Negrete, Physics of Plasmas 13 082308 (2006)
[3] R.B. White, M.S. Chance, Phys. of Fluids 27 2455-2467 (1984)