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Ma, X.; Ennis, D. A.; Hanson, J. D.; Hartwell, G. J.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Funding organisation: USDOE (United States)2018
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Funding organisation: USDOE (United States)2018
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[en] In this research, collimated soft X-ray (SXR) emissivity measurements from multi-channel cameras on the Compact Toroidal Hybrid (CTH) tokamak/torsatron device are incorporated in the 3D equilibrium reconstruction code V3FIT to reconstruct the shape of flux surfaces and infer the current distribution within the plasma. Equilibrium reconstructions of sawtoothing plasmas that use data from both SXR and external magnetic diagnostics show the central safety factor to be near unity under the assumption that SXR iso-emissivity contours lie on magnetic flux surfaces. The reconstruction results are consistent with those using the external magnetic data and a constraint on the location of q = 1 surfaces determined from the sawtooth inversion surface extracted from SXR brightness profiles. The agreement justifies the use of approximating SXR emission as a flux function in CTH, at least within the core of the plasma, subject to the spatial resolution of the SXR diagnostics. Lastly, this improved reconstruction of the central current density indicates that the current profile peakedness decreases with increasing external transform and that the internal inductance is not a relevant measure of how peaked the current profile is in hybrid discharges.
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OSTIID--1422574; AC05-00OR22725; FG02-00ER54610; Available from https://www.osti.gov/pages/biblio/1422574; DOE Accepted Manuscript full text, or the publishers Best Available Version will be available free of charge after the embargo period
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Physics of Plasmas; ISSN 1070-664X;
; v. 25(1); vp

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