Wall stabilization of high-beta anisotropic plasmas in an axisymmetric mirror trap

Nuclear Fushion

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Igor Kotelnikov¹  Vadim Prikhodko¹  Dmitri Yakovlev¹ 

[1] Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics SB RAS

关键词: plasma;    MHD stability;    ballooning modes;    mirror trap;    gas-dynamic trap;    compact axisymmetric toroid;    WHAM++;   

DOI  :  10.1088/1741-4326/acbfcd

来源: Institute of Physics Publishing Ltd.

【 摘 要 】

The stabilization of the 'rigid' flute and ballooning modes both with and without the effect of additional MHD anchors in an axisymmetric mirror trap, with the help of a perfectly conducting lateral wall, is studied using a model pressure distribution of a plasma with a steep-angle neutral beam injection at the magnetic field minimum. The calculations were performed for an anisotropic plasma in a model that simulates the pressure distribution during the injection of beams of fast neutral atoms into the magnetic field minimum. It is assumed that the lateral wall is an axisymmetric shell surrounding the plasma that follows the shape of the magnetic field line and is placed at a certain distance to the plasma border. It has been found that for the effective stabilization of the modes by the lateral wall only the parameter beta ( β , ratio of plasma pressure to the magnetic field pressure) must exceed some critical valueβ _crit. When combined with the conducting end plates imitating the MHD end stabilizers, there are two critical beta values and two stability zones 0ltbetaltbeta_{extrm{crit}1}and beta_{extrm{crit}2}ltbetalt1that can merge, making the entire range of allowable beta values 0ltbetalt1stable. The dependence of the critical betas on the degree of plasma anisotropy, the mirror ratio, and the width of the vacuum gap between the plasma and the lateral wall is studied. In contrast to the previous studies focusing on a plasma model with a sharp boundary, we calculated the stability zones for a number of diffuse radial pressure profiles and several axial magnetic field profiles.

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