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50th Annual Meeting of the Division of Plasma Physics

Volume 53, Number 14

Monday–Friday, November 17–21, 2008;

Dallas, Texas

Session JP6: Poster Session IV: Education and Outreach; Undergraduate and High School Research; DIII-D I; HBT-EP and Other Tokamaks; Short-Pulse Laser-Matter Interactions and Equations of State for HEDP

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Room: Marsalis A/B, 2:00pm - 5:00pm

Abstract ID: BAPS.2008.DPP.JP6.77

Abstract: JP6.00077 : ELMs Triggered From Deuterium Pellets Injected into DIII-D*

Authors:

L.R. Baylor

T.C. Jernigan

N. Commaux

S.K. Combs

(Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

T.E. Evans

P.B. Parks

(General Atomics)

M.E. Fenstermacher

(Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

R.A. Moyer

J.H. Yu

(University of California-San Diego)

Fueling pellets have been injected into DIII-D plasmas from 5

different locations and under different plasma H-mode conditions.

ELMs have been triggered from pellets injected from all locations

and under all the H-mode scenarios. Pellets injected into plasmas

with ELMs suppressed by a resonant magnetic perturbation have

also been observed to trigger one or more small ELM like events.

Experimental details of the pellet triggering of ELMs show that

they are triggered before the fueling pellets reach the top of

the H-mode pedestal, implying that small shallow penetrating

pellets are sufficient to trigger ELMs. To test this idea a

pellet dropper has been installed on DIII-D for ELM pacing

studies. Initial results from 1mm pellets dropped at 10 m/s into

the edge plasma show a strong toroidal deflection. Details of the

pellet penetration results from the dropper will be presented and

plans to improve the penetration and resulting ELM triggering

will be discussed.

*Supported by the US DOE under DE-AC05-00OR22725, DE-AC52-07NA27344 and DE-AC03-99ER54463.

To cite this abstract, use the following reference: http://meetings.aps.org/link/BAPS.2008.DPP.JP6.77