Abstract
In this paper we investigate differences of the ELM behaviour between RF and NB heated H-mode discharges in JET. The main result of this investigation is that the edge pedestal pressure with NB heating is higher than with RF heating for equal power fluxes crossing the separatrix. This can be explained by a higher population of fast ions in the edge region in the case of NB heating. Using data from NB heated steady-state H-modes we derive a scaling law for the width of the transport barrier. We find that the barrier width is proportional to the poloidal Larmor radius, which in turn is controlled by the ion population with the highest energy in the plasma edge.
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