Abstract
This letter reports on the efforts carried out at the ASDEX Upgrade tokamak to integrate I-mode plasmas with pellet fueling and to increase the I-mode Greenwald fraction , two important requirements for any DEMO operational scenario. For the first time, stationary I-mode plasmas have been achieved with pellet fueling and the core Greenwald fraction has been increased up to 0.8. Larger were not achieved due to technical constraints rather than to a physics-based limit. Pellet-fueled I-mode plasmas exhibit enhanced core and edge density, while core and edge temperature are reduced. Nonetheless, edge normalized gradients remain I-mode-like, namely shallow for the density and steep for the temperature. The I-mode energy confinement time is found to obey two distinct density dependencies: for it rises with increasing , while for the energy confinement time plateaus with increasing , or even decreases with for the pellet-fueled plasmas. Similarities with Ohmic and L-mode energy confinement time dependency on density are discussed.
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