Electron thermal confinement studies with applied resonant fields on TEXT

Externally applied magnetic fields are used on the Texas Experimental Tokamak (TEXT) to study the possibility of controlling the particle, impurity and heat fluxes at the plasma edge. Fields with toroidal mode number n = 2 or 3 and multiple poloidal mode numbers m (dominantly m = 7) are used, with a poloidally and toroidally averaged ratio of radial to toroidal field components 〈|br/Bø〉 ≅0. 1%. Calculations show that it is possible to produce mixed islands and stochastic regions at the plasma edge (r/a ≥ 0.8) without affecting the interior. The expected magnetic field structure is described and experimental evidence of the existence of this structure is presented. The edge electron temperature decreases with increasing 〈|br/Bø〉, while interior values are not significantly affected. The implied increase in edge electron thermal diffusivity is compared with theoretical expectations and is shown to agree with applicable theories to within a factor of three.

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