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Alcator C-Mod Ideas Forum |
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The next Alcator C-Mod Ideas Forum
will be held on September 10-12, 2003 at the MIT
Plasma Fusion Center, 175 Albany Street Cambridge, MA Room NW17-218 PURPOSE The purpose of the Forum is to provide an opportunity for presentation of specific ideas appropriate for experiments during C-Mod's 2002 run campaign. As usual, the Forum will be open to all interested parties, including current and potential future collaborators. FORMAT The format of the presentations will consist of a five-minute, no-more-than-three-slide, talk summarizing the basic idea and benefits of each proposed experiment, as well as its motivation, goals, and general plan of execution. All presentations must be in electronic form. They can be pdf, MSWord, or PowerPoint documents. Please name them "Ideas02_your-last-name_first-two-words-in-ideas-title.ext", where "ext" is the appropriate extension (.pdf, .doc, or .ppt). Local presenters should follow instructions at local submission link, while remote presenters should find instructions at the remote submission link. We will link all presentations on the Forum Agenda page, so that, upon presentation, you or the moderator can easily call up the document from the Agenda page. Individuals may present as many ideas on separate topics as they wish, but each presentation should be self-contained and limited to five minutes. Brief, constructive, group discussion will follow each presentation; the discussion should focus on clarification, not detailed critiques. Click here for examples of presentations made at the last Forum (Dec. 2001).
TASK FORCE AREAS This year the Forum is organized around two "focus"
areas and five topical science areas. We solicit Ideas within those areas.
The two focus areas are 1) issues relevant to quasi-steady-state Advanced
Tokamak (AT) plasmas, and 2) issues relevant to possible future burning
plasma experiments. The five topical science areas are Transport,
RF Physics, Divertor/Edge Physics, MHD, and Basic Science. After reading
the descriptions below, we ask that you choose that area most relevant to
your Idea and indicate that in your submission. A task force will be assembled
to organize and prioritize the proposals/ideas in each of the seven areas.
Initial run time allocations will be based upon the task force prioritization.
The task force coordinators for this FY2004 Forum are:
Interested parties are encouraged to contact the
appropriate coordinators prior to submitting their ideas, in order to avoid
duplication and to facilitate a coherent approach. Presentation of ideas
about new diagnostics and/or analysis methods is also encouraged for this
Forum. Examples of Ideas presented at the last (2002) Ideas Forum may be
found at http://www.psfc.mit.edu/people/terry/Forum_agenda.html. TITLE SUBMISSION --- IMPORTANT Titles for presentations should be sent by e-mail
to Valerie Censabella (censabella@psfc.mit.edu);
the deadline for title submissions is Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2003. Please
include the words "C-Mod Forum" in the subject field, and, where applicable,
indicate the task force area from the list above which best corresponds
to each idea. See http://www.psfc.mit.edu/people/terry/Ideas_Forum_2003/Ideas_forum.html
for a full checklist of what is required for presentation.An agenda will be published prior to the Forum. RUN CAMPAIGN AND CAPABILITIES Between 18 and 21 weeks of research operation are planned (depending upon final FY04 funding) for the 2004 campaign. Operation is presently scheduled to begin in early October, 2003. The first phase of the campaign will run through mid-December 2003. There will then be a break for installation of the first of two Lower Hybrid Wave Launchers. The research phase of the second part of the campaign is scheduled to begin in April, 2004. Please be aware that there are exisiting, already-approved experimental proposals that will "compete" for run time on an equal basis with the new ones from the Forum. These exisiting proposals/ideas can be examined at http://www.psfc.mit.edu/people/wolfe/cmod/experiments_fy03.html .The ideas listed there need not be re-proposed at the 2004 Ideas Forum. A short summary of the expected machine capabilities/parameters/diagnostics for the 2004 campaign follows. For a more comprehensive view, please visit the C-Mod website (www.psfc.mit.edu/cmod) or contact Jim Terry (terry@psfc.mit.edu). Facility Improvements that have occurred after 2002:
Facility Improvements scheduled
to be in place by the end of CY2004:
C-Mod Parameters Auxiliary Plasma Heating/Current Drive Capabilities: Selected Diagnostics |