Multi-Device Scaling of Neoclassical Tearing Mode Onset with Beta
The islands from tearing modes driven unstable and sustained by helically perturbed neo-classical bootstrap current at high beta often provide the practical limit to long-pulse, high confinement tokamak operation [1,2]. The discharges studied are ELMy H-mode single-null divertor (SND) at q{sub 95} {approx}> 3. Periodic sawteeth with m/n = 1/1 and 2/2 are observed to induce m/n = 3/2 neoclassical tearing modes (NTMs) in the tokamaks Asdex-Upgrade [3], DIII-D [4] and JET [5]; confinement can drop by up to 30%, constituting a ''soft'' beta limit. Data for the onset of these modes was obtained by slowly raising beta on a time scale longer than the sawteeth period and observing the beta value at onset. Comparison of the measured critical beta to a model for the critical beta is made in terms of dimensionless parameters. This modeling is then used for extrapolation/prediction to a reactor-grade tokamak.
- Research Organization:
- General Atomics, San Diego, CA (US)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- US Department of Energy (US)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC03-99ER54463
- OSTI ID:
- 766699
- Report Number(s):
- GA-A23138; TRN: US0109257
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 26th European Physical Society Conference on Controlled Fusion and Plasma Physics, Maastricht (NL), 06/14/1999--06/18/1999; Other Information: PBD: 1 Jul 1999
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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