A sawtooth-free period is produced following the pellet injection in the pellet fuelled discharge of qa = 3.4 (where qa is the safety factor at the plasma boundary) in the HL-2A tokamak. Establishment of the current...A sawtooth-free period is produced following the pellet injection in the pellet fuelled discharge of qa = 3.4 (where qa is the safety factor at the plasma boundary) in the HL-2A tokamak. Establishment of the current profile such as in the hybrid scenario is studied under the condition of pellet injection in HL-2A. It is shown that a q-profile of weak negative shear is produced immediately after the pellet injection, and it then evolves to a broad flat profile with q0 〉 1 (where qo is the safety factor at the centre). The measured MHD mode structures evidence consistencies of the evaluated q-profile with locations of the q = 1 surface in the sawtoothing period and of the q = 2 surface in the sawtooth-free period. TRANSP analysis indicates that the energy confinement is enhanced substantially during and after pellet injection, which is resulted from the q-profile optimization and the plasma density peaking.展开更多
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No 10675042.
文摘A sawtooth-free period is produced following the pellet injection in the pellet fuelled discharge of qa = 3.4 (where qa is the safety factor at the plasma boundary) in the HL-2A tokamak. Establishment of the current profile such as in the hybrid scenario is studied under the condition of pellet injection in HL-2A. It is shown that a q-profile of weak negative shear is produced immediately after the pellet injection, and it then evolves to a broad flat profile with q0 〉 1 (where qo is the safety factor at the centre). The measured MHD mode structures evidence consistencies of the evaluated q-profile with locations of the q = 1 surface in the sawtoothing period and of the q = 2 surface in the sawtooth-free period. TRANSP analysis indicates that the energy confinement is enhanced substantially during and after pellet injection, which is resulted from the q-profile optimization and the plasma density peaking.