Non-linear Fokker-Planck code study of high ion temperature plasma in JT-60U

A non-linear Fokker-Planck code is applied to the study of a JT-60U hot ion plasma in which the experimentally measured carbon impurity temperature reached up to 45 keV with 90 keV deuterium beam injection. A non-Maxwellian deuteron distribution function is obtained numerically and the deuteron bulk temperature, which has not been determined experimentally, is evaluated from the slope of the energy spectrum. It is found that the deuteron bank temperature can exceed the carbon temperature, indicating that the impurity temperature measurement does not lead to overestimation of the ion temperature. The deuteron effective temperature based on the average energy is, however, found to be almost the same as the carbon temperature. The DD fusion reactivity is also around a value given by the Maxwellian distribution with its temperature equal to the carbon temperature. Consequently, the carbon temperature may possibly be regarded as an equivalent ion temperature. (author)