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Analysis of ion cyclotron emission reveals inconsistencies with Alfvén eigenmodes in TCV experiments.
The tempting interpretation of ion cyclotron emission in terms of compressional Alfvén eigenmodes involving energetic ions is inconsistent with recent TCV experimental observations in some important aspects, such as (i) the perturbed poloidal field is exceeding the parallel perturbed magnetic field significantly, and (ii) the modes are near cyclotron harmonic and exhibit Alfvèn scaling of their frequency. We show that these characteristics can be explained by considering finite Larmor radius effects of thermal ions in shear Alfvén waves that allow such waves to exist well above the ion cyclotron frequency in the form of wave-packets bouncing within the plasma volume.
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