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Recently at JET a pure helium campaign has been performed. The exploration of the density limit in L-mode limiter as well as L-mode and H-mode diverted plasmas was one of the main objectives. In L-mode plasmas the density can be increased until the total radiated power equals the heating power, hence the density limit is determined by a radiative collapse. When compared to deuterium plasmas the L-mode density limit in helium is twice as high. In H-mode no significant difference in the density limit process has been observed. The pedestal density just before the H to L-mode back transition is the same in deuterium and helium plasmas. The H to L-mode back transition is followed by a development of a MARFE [J. Nucl. Mater. 145-147 (1987) 15] which eventually leads to a density limit disruption. (C) 2003 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
Oleg Yazyev, Yifei Guan, Marta Agnieszka Brzezinska
Basil Duval, Patrick Blanchard, Holger Reimerdes, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Artur Perek, Sophie Danielle Angelica Gorno, Claudia Colandrea, Dmytry Mykytchuk, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui, Hugo De Oliveira, Filippo Bagnato, Lorenzo Martinelli, Nicola Offeddu