The stability margin on EAST tokamak |
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Authors: | Qian Jin-Ping Wan Bao-Nian Shen Biao ML Walker DA Humphreys and Xiao Bing-Jia |
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Institution: | [1]Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei 230031, China [2]General Atomics, San Diego, California, USA |
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Abstract: | The experimental advanced superconducting tokamak (EAST) is the
first full superconducting tokamak with a D-shaped cross-sectional
plasma presently in operation. Its poloidal coils are relatively far
from the plasma due to the necessary thermal isolation from the
superconducting magnets, which leads to relatively weaker coupling
between plasma and poloidal field. This may cause more difficulties
in controlling the vertical instability by using the poloidal coils.
The measured growth rates of vertical stability are compared with
theoretical calculations, based on a rigid plasma model. Poloidal
beta and internal inductance are varied to investigate their effects
on the stability margin by changing the values of parameters $\alpha
_n$ and $\gamma _n$(Howl {\it et al} 1992 \wx{Phys. Fluids {\rm
B}}{4} 1724), with plasma shape fixed to be a configuration with $k
= 1.9$ and $\delta = 0.5$. A number of ways of studying the
stability margin are investigated. Among them, changing the values
of parameters $\kappa$ and $l_i$ is shown to be the most effective
way to increase the stability margin. Finally, a guideline of
stability margin $M_s (\kappa ,l_i ,A)$ to a new discharge scenario
showing whether plasmas can be stabilized is also presented in this
paper. |
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Keywords: | vertical instability growth
rate stability margin |
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