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Stability of global magnetohydrodynamic modes in the L-5 compact torsatron

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Global magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) modes in free-boundary plasma equilibrium configurations of the L-5 six-period compact torsatron (project of the Prokhorov General Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences; G. M. Batanov et al., Plasma Dev. Operat. 11, 161 (2003)) have been investigated using the CAS3D code. It is shown that global internal ideal MHD modes can be found reliably only in Mercier unstable plasmas. In all cases under study, they are intrinsically ballooning in nature, i.e., the disturbance at the inner side of the torus is significantly lower in value than that at the outer side. Besides internal modes localized near low-order rational magnetic surfaces, external modes that are localized near the free plasma boundary and are not associated with any rational magnetic surface inside the plasma (the so-called peeling modes) have been found. In contrast to a tokamak with the same aspect ratio, in which pressure-gradient edge-localized modes are ballooning in nature, the peeling modes in the 3D currentless magnetic configuration investigated in the present work are quasi-cylindrical in the flux coordinate system. The problem of plasma boundary destruction under the action of magnetic fields generated by plasma currents is also briefly discussed.

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  1. National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, pl. Akademika Kurchatova 1, Moscow, 123182, Russia

    M. I. Mikhailov

  2. Prokhorov General Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. Vavilova 38, Moscow, 119991, Russia

    S. V. Shchepetov & C. Nührenberg

  3. Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik, Euratom Association, Wendelsteinstrasse 1, Greifswald, D-17491, Germany

    M. D. Drevlak & J. Nührenberg

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Original Russian Text © M.I. Mikhailov, S.V. Shchepetov, M.D. Drevlak, C. Nührenberg, J. Nührenberg, 2014, published in Fizika Plazmy, 2014, Vol. 40, No. 10, pp. 887–895.

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Mikhailov, M.I., Shchepetov, S.V., Drevlak, M.D. et al. Stability of global magnetohydrodynamic modes in the L-5 compact torsatron. Plasma Phys. Rep. 40, 781–789 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063780X14100067

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