Affiliation:
1. Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik, EURATOM Association, D-8046 Garching, FRG
Abstract
The critical dependence of plasm a confinement in low-shear stellarators, such as Wendelstein VII-A, on the external rotational transform can be explained on the basis of magnetic surface destruction. External symmetry-breaking perturbations generate islands on the low order rational magnetic surfaces. The islands are largest at t = 1/2 and t = 1/3. Confinement is optimum in close proximity to these values. In o rd er to study the structure of surfaces under the influence of perturbations, a mapping procedure is used instead of field line integration. It is found that the neighbourhood of low-order rational surfaces is particularly robust against surface destruction. The reason is that in this vicinity only rational surfaces with large m and n exist (t = m/n). On these surfaces the external perturbation only generates small islands.
In W VII-A the current leads to the helical windings are one symmetry-breaking perturbation , and there might also be others. It is possible to avoid field errors of this kind in future stellarators.
Subject
Physical and Theoretical Chemistry,General Physics and Astronomy,Mathematical Physics
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