Reduced edge instability and improved confinement in the MST reversed-field pinch

Improved confinement has been achieved in the MST through control of the poloidal electric field, but it is now known that the improvement has been limited by bursts of an edge-resonant instability. Through refined poloidal electric field control, plus control of the toroidal electric field, we have...

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Published in:Physical review letters 2001-11, Vol.87 (20), p.205001-205001, Article 205001
Main Authors: Chapman, B E, Anderson, J K, Biewer, T M, Brower, D L, Castillo, S, Chattopadhyay, P K, Chiang, C S, Craig, D, Den Hartog, D J, Fiksel, G, Fontana, P W, Forest, C B, Gerhardt, S, Hansen, A K, Holly, D, Jiang, Y, Lanier, N E, Prager, S C, Reardon, J C, Sarff, J S
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Language:English
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Summary:Improved confinement has been achieved in the MST through control of the poloidal electric field, but it is now known that the improvement has been limited by bursts of an edge-resonant instability. Through refined poloidal electric field control, plus control of the toroidal electric field, we have suppressed these bursts. This has led to a total beta of 15% and a reversed-field-pinch-record estimated energy confinement time of 10 ms, a tenfold increase over the standard value which for the first time substantially exceeds the confinement scaling that has characterized most reversed-field-pinch plasmas.
ISSN:0031-9007
1079-7114
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.205001