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arxiv: 2604.06096 · v1 · submitted 2026-04-07 · ⚛️ physics.plasm-ph

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Effects of Tungsten Radiative Cooling on Impurity, Heat and Momentum Transport in DIII-D Plasmas

A. Tema Biwole , T. Odstr\v{c}il , X. Litaudon , S. Shi , D. Ernst , C. F. B. Zimmermann , J. Lestz , N. T. Howard
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P. Rodriguez-Fernandez F. Khabanov F. Turco C. Perks P. Manas D. Fajardo S. K. Kim L. Schmitz H. Wang W. Boyes S. Ding B. Victor C. Christal C. Lasnier T. M. Wilks G. McKee
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Tungsten radiative cooling in DIII-D lowers electron temperature, stabilizes TEM turbulence, and doubles toroidal rotation while peaking ion temperature.

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The paper reports a controlled experiment in the DIII-D tokamak that injects tungsten to create a high-radiation plasma with over half the power radiated away. Tungsten cooling reduces electron temperature, which lowers the ratio of electron to ion temperature and thereby stabilizes trapped-electron-mode turbulence. With this change in turbulence regime, both momentum diffusivity and ion thermal diffusivity drop, producing a peaked ion temperature profile and twice the toroidal rotation. At the outer radii, stronger flow shear and higher collisionality further suppress turbulence and ion heat flux. Impurity transport shifts to strong neoclassical inward convection of tungsten, reinforcing the radiative cooling without triggering a collapse.

Core claim

In the DIII-D tokamak, controlled tungsten injection under WEST-like conditions produces a high-radiation regime with core tungsten concentration around 3 times 10 to the minus 4 and radiated power fraction above 0.5. The resulting radiative cooling lowers electron temperature and therefore the ratio T_e over T_i. This ratio reduction stabilizes trapped-electron-mode turbulence, which in turn reduces momentum and ion thermal diffusivities. The lower diffusivities cause the ion temperature to peak and toroidal rotation to increase by a factor of two. Enhanced E times B shear and collisionality in the outer region further suppress ion-scale turbulence, dropping the ion heat flux sharply. Impur

What carries the argument

The reduction in the electron-to-ion temperature ratio (T_e/T_i) caused by tungsten radiative cooling, which stabilizes trapped-electron-mode turbulence and thereby lowers ion thermal and momentum transport coefficients.

If this is right

  • Ion temperature profiles become peaked because ion thermal diffusivity falls.
  • Toroidal rotation rises by a factor of two as momentum diffusivity decreases.
  • Tungsten impurity transport changes from turbulent to neoclassical inward convection, bootstrapping the radiative cooling.
  • No radiative collapse occurs despite radiated power fraction above 0.5, owing to ion-electron energy exchange and 1/1 MHD modulation.
  • The turbulence stabilization supports preparation for a tungsten wall in DIII-D and informs performance in WEST and future radiating reactors.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Tungsten radiation could serve as a passive actuator to control ion-scale turbulence and rotation in reactor-scale plasmas without external momentum input.
  • The self-reinforcing inward tungsten convection may appear in other high-Z radiating scenarios and could be tested by varying impurity species.
  • Similar T_e/T_i reductions achieved by other means might reproduce the transport changes, offering a route to separate the temperature-ratio effect from impurity-specific transport.

Load-bearing premise

The measured reductions in ion thermal and momentum diffusivities are caused primarily by the TEM stabilization from lowered T_e/T_i rather than by concurrent changes in density profiles, E times B shear, or other plasma parameters.

What would settle it

A plasma in which electron temperature is lowered by a different method (such as added electron heating or different impurity) while holding density gradients, flow shear, and collisionality fixed shows no corresponding drop in ion heat or momentum diffusivity.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2604.06096 by A. Tema Biwole, B. Victor, C. Christal, C. F. B. Zimmermann, C. Lasnier, C. Perks, D. Ernst, D. Fajardo, F. Khabanov, F. Turco, G. McKee, H. Wang, J. Lestz, L. Schmitz, N. T. Howard, P. Manas, P. Rodriguez-Fernandez, S. Ding, S. K. Kim, S. Shi, T. M. Wilks, T. Odstr\v{c}il, W. Boyes, X. Litaudon.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Poloidal cross-section of the plasma discharges of interest, showing the magnetic geometry matched to WEST parameters and the Beam Emission Spectroscopy (BES) channel locations spanning 0.6 < ρ < 0.9 at the outboard midplane. The geometry shown is representative of DIII-D discharges #203396- #203401. Tungsten is injected from the low-field side using the Laser Blow-Off (LBO) system, while BES provides loca… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Time traces from the baseline DIII-D discharge #203401 showing the evolution of key plasma parameters. Panel (a) shows the applied NBI and ECH heating powers together with the core radiated power fraction. Panel (b) shows the inferred tungsten density from soft X-ray (SXR) measurements and the core-averaged effective charge Zeff. Panel (c) shows the core electron temperature (ECE) and the line-averaged ele… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Measured kinetic profiles of the hybrid discharge before and after tungsten injection. Shown are the [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_3.png] view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Power profiles for the reference (pre-LBO-W, blue) and W-cooling (post-LBO-W, red) phases of the [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_4.png] view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Ratio of ion to electron heat flux Qi/Qe before (blue) and after (red) the LBO-W injection, obtained from TRANSP power-balance analysis and time-averaged over the same intervals as [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_5.png] view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: Comparison of experimental kinetic profiles and TGYRO predictions for the pre-LBO and W-cooling [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_6.png] view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: TGLF (left) and linear CGYRO (right) stability analysis before and after the LBO-W injection. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_7.png] view at source ↗
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: Quasilinear TGLF sensitivity scans of the electron and ion heat fluxes [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_8.png] view at source ↗
Figure 10
Figure 10. Figure 10: Radial profile of normalized BES density [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_10.png] view at source ↗
Figure 9
Figure 9. Figure 9: Ion and electron heat diffusivities before [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_9.png] view at source ↗
Figure 11
Figure 11. Figure 11: Cross-spectral density (top), coherence (middle), and cross-phase (bottom) between poloidally separated BES channels at ρ ≈ 0.75 (left) and ρ ≈ 0.85 (right), before (1700–3000 ms, blue) and after (3300– 4000 ms, red) the W injection. The analysis uses the frequency range f = 20–120 kHz. The post-LBO phase shows reduced fluctuation power and coherence across the ion-scale frequency range, indicating a weak… view at source ↗
Figure 12
Figure 12. Figure 12: Reconstructed toroidal rotation and momentum-transport coefficients before and after the LBO-W [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_12.png] view at source ↗
Figure 14
Figure 14. Figure 14: Neoclassical impurity transport coefficients [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p014_14.png] view at source ↗
Figure 15
Figure 15. Figure 15: (a) Spectrogram of magnetic fluctuations measured from ECE near the magnetic axis, showing the [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p016_15.png] view at source ↗
Figure 16
Figure 16. Figure 16: Evolution of the plasma during the W-cooling phase and its approach to the H–L transition. Left [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p016_16.png] view at source ↗
Figure 17
Figure 17. Figure 17: Neutron emission and fast-ion behavior during the W-cooling phase. Measured neutron rate compared [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p017_17.png] view at source ↗
Figure 19
Figure 19. Figure 19: DIII-D data points in the neoclassical￾to-turbulent impurity transport parameter space fol￾lowing the framework of Fajardo et al.. The ratio ZDNC/Dturb is shown as a function of T 2 i /(ni a Zeff frot) for multiple devices, including AUG, JET, C-Mod, ITER, and SPARC. The DIII-D data point shifts from the pre-LBO phase (blue) to the W-cooling phase (red), showing an increase in ZDNC/Dturb and thus a strong… view at source ↗
read the original abstract

A first-of-its-kind experiment was conducted in the DIII-D tokamak under WEST similarity constraints on plasma shape and core parameters. This work presents a detailed transport study comparing a reference regime dominated by intrinsic carbon radiation and a high-radiation regime resulting from controlled tungsten (W) injection using the Laser Blow-Off system, with a core tungsten concentration $n_{\mathrm{W}}/n_e \sim 3\times 10^{-4}$ and a radiated-power fraction $f_\mathrm{rad}>0.5$. The W-induced radiative cooling lowered the electron temperature, thereby decreasing $T_e/T_i$ and stabilizing trapped-electron-mode (TEM) turbulence. This transition in turbulence regime reduced momentum and ion thermal diffusivities, yielding ion temperature peaking and a factor-of-two increase in toroidal rotation. At the outer plasma region, enhanced $E\timesB$ shear and increased collisionality further suppressed ion-scale turbulence, causing a sharp drop in ion heat flux. Consequently, impurity transport, predominantly turbulent in the low-radiation regime, acquired a strong neoclassical inward W convection during radiative cooling, bootstrapping the cooling cycle. Despite $f_\mathrm{rad}>0.5$, radiative collapse was not observed, likely owing to collisional ion-to-electron energy exchange acting as an electron-energy reservoir, together with $1/1$ MHD activity modulating the radiated power through core impurity neoclassical $T_i$-screening. These results support preparation for a tungsten wall change in DIII-D by elucidating tungsten-induced turbulence stabilization. They also provide key insights for interpreting plasma performance in WEST and are relevant to future reactors expected to operate with radiating tungsten-walled plasmas.

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Referee Report

2 major / 2 minor

Summary. The manuscript presents a DIII-D experiment comparing a reference plasma regime with intrinsic carbon radiation to a high-radiation regime achieved via controlled tungsten injection (core n_W/n_e ~ 3e-4, f_rad > 0.5) under WEST-similarity constraints. It claims that W-induced radiative cooling lowers electron temperature and thus Te/Ti, stabilizing trapped-electron-mode (TEM) turbulence; this reduces ion thermal and momentum diffusivities, producing ion-temperature peaking and a factor-of-two increase in toroidal rotation. At outer radii, enhanced E×B shear and collisionality further suppress turbulence. Impurity transport shifts from turbulent to neoclassical inward W convection, and radiative collapse is avoided via ion-electron energy exchange and 1/1 MHD activity. The results are positioned as preparation for a tungsten wall in DIII-D and relevant to WEST and reactor plasmas.

Significance. If the primary causal link between Te/Ti-driven TEM stabilization and the observed diffusivity reductions holds after quantitative isolation from concurrent profile changes, the work would provide valuable experimental insight into how controlled impurity radiation can improve confinement in tungsten-walled devices. The controlled injection method, direct regime comparison, and discussion of mechanisms preventing collapse add practical relevance for future high-radiation scenarios.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: The central claim attributes the reductions in ion thermal and momentum diffusivities primarily to TEM stabilization from lowered Te/Ti. However, the same paragraph lists concurrent changes (density profile evolution, enhanced E×B shear, increased collisionality) without a quantitative decomposition. Transport analysis yields the diffusivity drops, but the manuscript does not demonstrate that varying only Te/Ti (while holding other parameters fixed) in linear or nonlinear gyrokinetic simulations reproduces the observed reductions; this leaves the turbulence-regime-transition explanation correlative rather than isolated as dominant.
  2. [Transport and turbulence analysis] Transport and turbulence analysis sections: The power-balance-derived diffusivities and any accompanying stability calculations need explicit parameter scans or sensitivity studies that separate the Te/Ti effect from the listed concurrent changes. Without such isolation, the causal attribution to TEM stabilization cannot be confirmed as the load-bearing mechanism for the reported factor-of-two rotation increase and ion-temperature peaking.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: The phrase 'first-of-its-kind' should be qualified by explicit comparison to prior tungsten-injection or high-radiation studies in DIII-D or similar devices to clarify the precise novelty.
  2. [Notation and figures] Notation: The definition and radial extent of the 'outer plasma region' where E×B shear and collisionality effects are invoked should be stated consistently with the profile figures or transport analysis.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the careful review and for recognizing the experiment's relevance to tungsten-walled devices. We address the major comments below by agreeing that quantitative isolation of the Te/Ti effect would strengthen the causal claims. We will incorporate the requested sensitivity studies in the revised manuscript.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: The central claim attributes the reductions in ion thermal and momentum diffusivities primarily to TEM stabilization from lowered Te/Ti. However, the same paragraph lists concurrent changes (density profile evolution, enhanced E×B shear, increased collisionality) without a quantitative decomposition. Transport analysis yields the diffusivity drops, but the manuscript does not demonstrate that varying only Te/Ti (while holding other parameters fixed) in linear or nonlinear gyrokinetic simulations reproduces the observed reductions; this leaves the turbulence-regime-transition explanation correlative rather than isolated as dominant.

    Authors: We agree that the abstract presents the Te/Ti-driven TEM stabilization as the primary mechanism while noting concurrent changes, without explicit isolation. The manuscript's transport analysis derives the diffusivity reductions from power balance and shows reduced TEM growth rates via linear stability calculations in the two regimes. To strengthen the attribution, we will add linear gyrokinetic parameter scans in the revised version that vary only Te/Ti while holding density profiles, E×B shear, and collisionality fixed at the reference values. These scans will be summarized in the abstract and detailed in the transport section to demonstrate that the Te/Ti reduction accounts for the majority of the growth-rate suppression. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Transport and turbulence analysis] Transport and turbulence analysis sections: The power-balance-derived diffusivities and any accompanying stability calculations need explicit parameter scans or sensitivity studies that separate the Te/Ti effect from the listed concurrent changes. Without such isolation, the causal attribution to TEM stabilization cannot be confirmed as the load-bearing mechanism for the reported factor-of-two rotation increase and ion-temperature peaking.

    Authors: We concur that the current analysis would benefit from clearer separation of effects to confirm the load-bearing role of Te/Ti-driven TEM stabilization. The manuscript already compares linear growth rates between regimes, attributing the primary reduction to lowered Te/Ti, with secondary suppression from enhanced E×B shear and collisionality at outer radii. In revision we will add explicit sensitivity studies: linear scans isolating Te/Ti, plus quantitative estimates of each parameter's contribution to the diffusivity changes via the transport equations. This will support the reported ion-temperature peaking and rotation increase as primarily resulting from the turbulence-regime transition, while acknowledging the role of the other changes. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: experimental transport study with independent measurements

full rationale

The paper reports a controlled DIII-D experiment comparing reference carbon-dominated and tungsten-injected high-radiation regimes under WEST similarity constraints. Central claims rest on direct profile measurements, power-balance transport analysis, and standard gyrokinetic modeling of TEM stabilization from observed Te/Ti changes. No derivation step equates a fitted parameter or self-cited result to the target outcome by construction; the turbulence-regime transition is inferred from measured quantities rather than assumed. Self-citations, if present, are not load-bearing for the primary experimental findings. The analysis chain is self-contained against external benchmarks and falsifiable via the reported data.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

1 free parameters · 2 axioms · 0 invented entities

The central claims rest on standard tokamak transport theory (neoclassical and gyrokinetic models) applied to the observed temperature, rotation, and impurity profiles; no new free parameters or postulated entities are introduced in the abstract.

free parameters (1)
  • core tungsten concentration
    Stated as approximately 3 times 10 to the minus 4, set by the Laser Blow-Off injection and used to define the high-radiation regime.
axioms (2)
  • domain assumption Trapped-electron-mode turbulence is stabilized when the electron-to-ion temperature ratio decreases
    Invoked to explain the shift away from TEM-dominated transport after radiative cooling.
  • domain assumption Impurity transport becomes neoclassically dominated under increased collisionality during radiative cooling
    Used to account for the strong inward tungsten convection observed at the outer plasma region.

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