Secondary instability as cause of minor disruptions in density limit tokamak plasmas

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2011

Authors

F. Salzedas (Author) FEUP; JET EFDA contributors (Collaborator) Other

Journal

Title: Physics of Plasmas

Vol. 18 No. 10

Pages: 10070-11-1-10070-41-4

ISSN: 1070-664X

Publisher: American Institute of Physics

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Scientific classification

FOS: Natural sciences > Physical sciences

CORDIS: Physical sciences > Physics > Applied physics > Experimental physics

Associated Projects

FU07-CT-2007-00062 - General Support

Other information

DOI: 10.1063/1.3644475

Abstract (EN): Experimental evidence was found in JET plasmas of a new instability at the onset of minor disruptions. This instability is observed during the growth of the well known m/n¿=¿2/1 magnetic island and is localized close to it, behaving as a secondary instability to the island. The large heat fluxes towards the plasma edge, characteristic of minor disruptions, occur during the low rotation phase of the magnetic island at a time the amplitude of the secondary instability suffers a large increase. No poloidal or toroidal mode numbers could be assigned to the secondary instability.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

Notes: http://link.aip.org/link/?PHP/18/100701