[HTML][HTML] 20 years of research on the Alcator C-Mod tokamak

M Greenwald, A Bader, S Baek, M Bakhtiari… - Physics of …, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
The object of this review is to summarize the achievements of research on the Alcator C-Mod
tokamak [Hutchinson et al., Phys. Plasmas 1, 1511 (1994) and Marmar, Fusion Sci. Technol …

I-mode: an H-mode energy confinement regime with L-mode particle transport in Alcator C-Mod

DG Whyte, AE Hubbard, JW Hughes… - Nuclear …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
An improved energy confinement regime, I-mode, is studied in Alcator C-Mod, a compact
high-field divertor tokamak using ion cyclotron range of frequencies (ICRFs) auxiliary …

Improved profile fitting and quantification of uncertainty in experimental measurements of impurity transport coefficients using Gaussian process regression

MA Chilenski, M Greenwald, Y Marzouk… - Nuclear …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
The need to fit smooth temperature and density profiles to discrete observations is
ubiquitous in plasma physics, but the prevailing techniques for this have many shortcomings …

Observations of core toroidal rotation reversals in Alcator C-Mod ohmic L-mode plasmas

JE Rice, BP Duval, ML Reinke, YA Podpaly… - Nuclear …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
Direction reversals of intrinsic toroidal rotation have been observed in Alcator C-Mod ohmic
L-mode plasmas following modest electron density or toroidal magnetic field ramps. The …

Non-local heat transport, rotation reversals and up/down impurity density asymmetries in Alcator C-Mod ohmic L-mode plasmas

JE Rice, C Gao, ML Reinke, PH Diamond… - Nuclear …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
Several seemingly unrelated effects in Alcator C-Mod ohmic L-mode plasmas are shown to
be closely connected: non-local heat transport, core toroidal rotation reversals, energy …

Characterization and performance of a field aligned ion cyclotron range of frequency antenna in Alcator C-Mod

SJ Wukitch, ML Garrett, R Ochoukov, JL Terry… - Physics of …, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
Ion cyclotron range of frequency (ICRF) heating is expected to provide auxiliary heating for
ITER and future fusion reactors where high Z metallic plasma facing components (PFCs) are …

Poloidal variation of high-Z impurity density due to hydrogen minority ion cyclotron resonance heating on Alcator C-Mod

ML Reinke, IH Hutchinson, JE Rice… - Plasma Physics and …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract In the Alcator C-Mod tokamak, strong, steady-state variations of molybdenum
density within a flux surface are routinely observed in plasmas using hydrogen minority ion …

X-ray imaging crystal spectroscopy for use in plasma transport research

ML Reinke, YA Podpaly, M Bitter… - Review of Scientific …, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
This research describes advancements in the spectral analysis and error propagation
techniques associated with x-ray imaging crystal spectroscopy (XICS) that have enabled this …

Core impurity transport in Alcator C-Mod L-, I-and H-mode plasmas

JE Rice, ML Reinke, C Gao, NT Howard… - Nuclear …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Core impurity transport has been investigated for a variety of confinement regimes in Alcator
C-Mod plasmas from x-ray emission following injection of medium and high Z materials. In …

The alcator c-mod program

ES Marmar, ACM Group - Fusion science and technology, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
To introduce this special issue, this paper gives a brief overview of the key themes in the
Alcator C-Mod tokamak research program. These include energy, particle and momentum …