Ion cyclotron resonance frequency heating of deuterium plasmas in the Joint European Torus: Interpretation of measurements of minority hydrogen isotope ion distribution functions

Abstract

An iterative method for solving the hot-plasma dispersion relation and computing power deposition during multispecies minority ion cyclotron resonance frequency (ICRF) heating experiments has been presented in a companion paper [D. Testa, W.G.F.Core, and A.Gondhalekar, Phys. Plasmas (this issue)]. Here this method is further developed to model and validate the measurements of minority hydrogen isotope ion distribution functions during multispecies second harmonic ICRF heating of deuterium plasmas in the Joint European Torus [J.Wesson, Tokamaks (Clarendon, Oxford, 1997), pp. 581–603].