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Kinetic effects on the currents determining the stability of a magnetic island in tokamaks

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The role of the bootstrap and polarization currents for the stability of neoclassical tearing modes is investigated employing both a drift kinetic and a gyrokinetic approach. The adiabatic response of the ions around the island separatrix implies, for island widths below or around the ion thermal banana width, density flattening for islands rotating at the ion diamagnetic frequency, while for islands rotating at the electron diamagnetic frequency the density is unperturbed and the only contribution to the neoclassical drive arises from electron temperature flattening. As for the polarization current, the full inclusion of finite orbit width effects in the calculation of the potential developing in a rotating island leads to a smoothing of the discontinuous derivatives exhibited by the analytic potential on which the polarization term used in the modeling is based. This leads to a reduction of the polarization-current contribution with respect to the analytic estimate, in line with other studies. Other contributions to the perpendicular ion current, related to the response of the particles around the island separatrix, are found to compete or even dominate the polarization-current term for realistic island rotation frequencies.

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    E. Poli, A. Bergmann, F. J. Casson, W. A. Hornsby, M. Siccinio & D. Zarzoso

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Poli, E., Bergmann, A., Casson, F.J. et al. Kinetic effects on the currents determining the stability of a magnetic island in tokamaks. Plasma Phys. Rep. 42, 450–464 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063780X16050135

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