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(ITERP1/07) Latest Results from the ITER H-Mode Confinement and Threshold Databases

   
K. Thomsen 6, G. Bracco 5, C. Bush 8, T. N. Carlstrom 4, A. N. Chudnovskii 9, J. G. Cordey 6, J. C. DeBoo 4, S. J. Fielding 3, T. Fukuda 7, M. Greenwald 1, G. T. Hoang 11, A. Hubbard 1, Y. Kamada 7, O. Kardaun 2, S. Kaye 8, A. Kus 2, C. Lowry 6, Y. Martin 12, T. Matsuda 7, Y. Miura 7, J. Ongena 10, E. Righi 13, F. Ryter 2, D. Schissel 4, J. A. Snipes 1, W. Suttrop 2, T. Takizuka 7, H. Tamai 7, K. Tsuchiya 7, M. Valovic 3, ALCATOR C-MOD Team 1, ASDEX Upgrade Team 2, ASDEX Upgrade Team 2, COMPASS-D Team 3, DIII-D Team 4, FTU Team 5, JET Team 6, JFT-2M Team 7, JT-60 Team 7, PBX-M Team 8, PDX Team 8, T-10 Team 9, TCV Team 12, TEXTOR Team 10, TFTR Team 8, TORE SUPRA Team 11
 
1 Plasma Science and Fusion Center, MIT, USA
2 Max-Planck-Institute for Plasma Physics, Garching, Germany
3 United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, Culham, UK
4 General Atomics, San Diego, USA
5 ENEA Frascati Energy Research Center, Frascati, Italy
6 JET Joint Undertaking, Abingdon, UK
7 Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute, Naka, Japan
8 Princeton Plasma physics Laboratory
9 Russian Research Center Kurchatov Institute, Moscow
10 ERM/KMS - EURATOM, Belgium State, Belgium
11 Centre d'Etudes Nucleaires de Cadarache, Cadarache, France
12 CRPP/EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
13 NET Team, Garching, Germany

Abstract
New H-mode  power threshold scaling expressions have been found which incorporates an assumed 1/M isotope dependence for hydrogenic plasmas. Preliminary power threshold predictions based on discriminant analysis have also been made. However, the ITER  predictions are still uncertain. The log-linear confinement scaling expressions suggest that the L-mode  is governed by Bohm type transport whereas the ELMY H-mode is governed by gyro-Bohm transport. Various non-linear scalings also fit the ELMy H-mode  data and a confidence interval for the predicted confinement time in ITER has been established which takes the predictions of these into account.

 

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