Abstract
To conserve transformer volt-seconds, power to toroidal magnetic field coils, and to trigger an early transition into high confinement (H) mode, where the requirements on auxiliary power are lower, rf heating during the B-field ramp phase of ignition-class tokamaks is considered. The scheme is analyzed by modifying the usual plasma operating condition diagrams to apply to the ramp phase where the magnetic field, plasma current, and density are changing. It is shown that ion cyclotron range-of-frequencies direct electron heating during the ramp phase of IGNITOR [B. Coppi, M. Nassi, and L. E. Sugiyama, Phys. Scr. 45, 112 (1992)], as proposed by Majeski [R. Majeski, in AIP Conference Proceedings 485—Radio Frequency Power in Plasmas, Annapolis, MD (AIP, New York, 1999), p. 353], may be useful in optimizing the operating condition path to ignition.
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