Observations of pressure gradient driven m = 1 internal kink mode in EAST tokamak
Observations of pressure gradient driven m = 1 internal kink mode in EAST tokamak
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DOI:
10.1063/1.4773032
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发表时间:
2012-12
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2.2
通讯作者:
Liqing Xu;Liqun Hu;Kaiyun Chen;E. Li;Fudi Wang;Ming Xu;Y. Duan;T. Shi;J. Zhang;R. Zhou-R.-Zh
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Liqing Xu;Liqun Hu;Kaiyun Chen;E. Li;Fudi Wang;Ming Xu;Y. Duan;T. Shi;J. Zhang;R. Zhou-R.-Zh
Pressure gradient driven m = 1 internal kink mode destabilization that follows an L-H transition is observed in the operational region of the EAST tokamak, which manifests in periodic oscillations in soft x-ray (SXR) and Mirnov coil signals. Using tomography with the high resolution soft x-ray detection array, we find that the rotation direction of the 1/1 kink mode is in the ion diamagnetic drift direction in poloidal cross-section. A large displacement of the hot core is attributable to the shift of the 1/1 internal kink mode. In contrast to stationary oscillations with fixed frequency, various frequency chirping behavior is observed with this 1/1 kink mode. Furthermore, we also occasionally observe that a 2/1 neoclassical tearing mode (NTM) is triggered by a 1/1 internal kink mode via mode coupling in a high-performance plasma. The spatial structure of a 2/2 mode, which is the harmonic mode of the 1/1 kink mode, is also presented in this paper. Large amounts of medium-Z impurities accumulate in the cen...