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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