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Ballooning mode stability of bean-shaped cross sections for high-β tokamak plasmas

  • M. S. Chance
  • , S. C. Jardin
  • , T. H. Stix

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Abstract

Indentation of a tokamak plasma on its inner-major-radius side is shown to be strongly beneficial for achieving high-β stability against ballooning modes. With use of a set of reasonable equilibrium profiles, it is found that moderate indentation provides accessibility to the second region of stability. Ohmic equilibrium configurations which exhibit the second stability region have not yet been found.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)1963-1966
Number of pages4
JournalPhysical review letters
Volume51
Issue number21
DOIs
StatePublished - 1983

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • General Physics and Astronomy

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