MHD activity and formation of the electron internal transport barrier in the T-10 tokamak

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Razumova, KA [1 ]
Alikaev, VV [1 ]
Borschegovskii, AA [1 ]
Chistyakov, VV [1 ]
Dremin, MM [1 ]
Gorshkov, AV [1 ]
Kislov, AY [1 ]
Kislov, DA [1 ]
Krylov, SV [1 ]
Lysenko, SE [1 ]
Myalton, TB [1 ]
Notkin, GE [1 ]
Poznyak, VI [1 ]
Pavlov, YD [1 ]
Roy, IN [1 ]
Savrukhin, PV [1 ]
Sushkov, AV [1 ]
Sannikov, VV [1 ]
Soldatov, SV [1 ]
Vershkov, VA [1 ]
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[1] IV Kurchatov Atom Energy Inst, Russian Res Ctr, Moscow 123182, Russia
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10.1088/0741-3335/42/9/303
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O35 [流体力学]; O53 [等离子体物理学];
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070204 ; 080103 ; 080704 ;
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The plasma stability and confinement have been investigated through control of the safety factor profile q(r) by the electron cyclotron current drive in the T-10 tokamak. The regimes with dq/dr congruent to 0 and dq/dr < 0 in the plasma core were obtained. Various types of MHD activity were observed: ordinary sawtooth, saturated sawtooth, humpbacks, trills etc. It was shown that when the minimal value q(min) increases from q(min) < 1 to q(min) = 2 the plasma becomes strongly unstable due to the corresponding MHD activity or passes to the steady-state improved confinement mode. The latter is realized when the electron internal transport barrier (EITB) is formed. The condition for the appearance of the EITB is dq/dr congruent to 0, where q = m/n lies near a rational value for low m and n.
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