Abstract
The onset of nonclassical tearing modes (NTM) in the Joint European Torus tokamak device was demonstrated. It was shown that NTM could be easily destabilized by long-period sawteeth, obtained by sawtooth stabilization from ion-cyclotron heating or current drives. The concept is applicable to burning plasma scenarios, and destabilization of sawtooth resulted in shorter sawtooth periods and larger beta values without NTM.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 105001 |
Pages (from-to) | 1050011-1050014 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Journal | Physical Review Letters |
Volume | 88 |
Issue number | 10 |
Publication status | Published - 11 Mar 2002 |