@article{oai:nifs-repository.repo.nii.ac.jp:00010800, author = {TAKAHASHI, Hiromi and NAGAOKA, Kenichi and NAGAOKA, Ken-ichi and Mukai, Kiyofumi and YOKOYAMA, Masayuki and MURAKAMI, Sadayoshi and OHDACHI, Satoshi and Bando, T. and NARUSHIMA, Yoshiro and NAKANO, Haruhisa and OSAKABE, Masaki and IDA, Katsumi and YOSHINUMA, Mikiro and YOSHINUMA, Mikirou and SEKI, Ryosuke and Yamaguchi, Hiroyuki and TANAKA, Kenji and Nakata, Motoki and Warmer, Felix and OISHI, Tetsutaro and GOTO, Motoshi and MORITA, Shigeru and TSUJIMIRA, Toru and TSUJIMURA, Toru Ii and KUBO, Shin and Kobayashi, Tatsuya and YAMADA, Ichihiro and SUZUKI, Chihiro and EMOTO, Masahiko and IDO, Takeshi and SHIMIZU, Akihiro and TOKUZAWA, Tokihiko and NAGASAKI, Kazunobu and MORISAKI, Tomohiko and TAKEIRI, Yasuhiko and LHD, Experiment Group}, issue = {10}, journal = {Nuclear Fusion}, month = {Aug}, note = {The deuterium (D) operation was initiated in the LHD in 2017. In the first campaign of the D experiments, we successfully extended the high temperature regime in the LHD. The new record of the ion temperature (Ti) of 10 keV associated with the ion internal transport barrier (ITB) was achieved due to several operational optimization. The thermal confinement characteristics of ITB plasmas were compared between hydrogen and D discharges. The effective ion thermal diffusivity of the ion-ITB plasmas was found to be smaller in the D discharges than that in the H discharges. The profiles of the Ti, the electron density, and the impurity of the high Ti plasmas strongly depended on the magnetic configuration and these profiles tended to peaked in the inward-shifted configuration. It was also found that the electron thermal confinement of the electron-ITB plasmas was clearly improved in the deuterium case. The GKV simulation showed the linear growth rate of TEM/ITG reduced in the plasmas with D both for the ion ITB and the electron ITB plasmas and qualitatively agreed with the tendency of the change in the thermal diffusivity obtained from the power balance analysis.}, title = {Realization of high Ti plasmas and confinement characteristics of ITB plasmas in the LHD deuterium experiments}, volume = {58}, year = {2018} }