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PLASMA PHYSICS AND CONTROLLED FUSION
Volume 54, Issue 9, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0741-3335/54/9/095002
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- US Department of Energy [DE-FG02-05ER54809, DE-FG02-95ER54309, DE-FC02-04ER54698]
- Office of Science of the US Department of Energy [DE-AC02-05CH11231]
- U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) [DE-FG02-05ER54809] Funding Source: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
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In DIII-D experiments, rapid termination by Ar-pellet injection sometimes produces a post-termination runaway electron (RE) current plateau, but this effect is highly non-reproducible on a shot-to-shot basis, particularly for diverted target plasmas. A set of DIII-D discharges is analyzed with two MHD codes to understand the relationship between the current profile of the target plasma and the amplitude of the RE current plateau. Using the linear stability code GATO, a correlation between the radial profile of the unstable n = 1 mode just after Ar-pellet injection and the observed appearance of an RE plateau is identified. Nonlinear NIMROD simulations with RE test-particle calculations directly predict RE confinement times during the disruption. With one exception, NIMROD predicts better RE confinement for shots in which higher RE currents were observed in DIII-D. But, the variation in confinement is primarily connected to the saturated n = 1 mode amplitude and not its radial profile. Still, both sets of analyses support the hypothesis that RE deconfinement by MHD fluctuations is a major factor in the shot-to-shot variability of RE plateaus, though additional factors such as seed current amplitude cannot be ruled out.
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