Neoclassical Tearing Modes and Fast Ions Confinement in ASDEX Upgrade

P. Martin , W. Bobkov, G. Conway, U. Fahrbach, A. Flaws, M. Garcia Munoz, M. Gobbin, S. Graca, S. Gunter, V. Igochine, K. Lackner, M. Maraschek, L. Marrelli, P. Piovesan, K. Sassenberg, E. Strumberger, W. Suttrop, H. Zohm, the ASDEX Upgrade Team and the AUG ICRF Group (1) Consorzio RFX – Associazione Euratom-Enea sulla fusione, Padova, Italy (2) Max-Planck-Institut fur Plasmaphysik, Association Euratom, Boltzmannstrasse 2, Garching bei Munchen, Germany (3) Associacao Euratom-IST, CFN, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa, Portugal (4) Physics Dept, University College Cork, Association Euratom-DCU, Cork, Ireland