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Plasma Start-up in HIT-II and NSTX Using Transient Coaxial Helicity Injection

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The method of transient coaxial helicity injection (CHI) has previously been used in the HIT-II experiment at the University of Washington to produce 100 kA of closed flux current. The generation of the plasma current by CHI involves the process of magnetic reconnection, which has been experimentally controlled in the National Spherical Torus Experiment (NSTX) at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory to allow this potentially unstable phenomenon to reorganize the magnetic field lines to form closed, nested magnetic surfaces carrying a plasma current up to 160 kA. This is a world record for non-inductive closed-flux current generation, and demonstrates the high current capability of this method.

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We acknowledge the NSTX and HIT-II teams for support with machine operation and diagnostics. This work is supported by DOE contract numbers: FG03-96ER5436, DE-FG03-99ER54519 and DE-AC02-76CH03073.

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  1. University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

    R. Raman, T. R. Jarboe & B. A. Nelson

  2. Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, USA

    D. Mueller, M. G. Bell & M. Ono

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Raman, R., Jarboe, T.R., Nelson, B.A. et al. Plasma Start-up in HIT-II and NSTX Using Transient Coaxial Helicity Injection. J Fusion Energ 27, 96–99 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10894-007-9106-1

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