The Effect of Plasma Beta on High-n Ballooning Stability at Low Magnetic Shear
Plasma Physics
2016-11-24 v1
Abstract
An explanation of the observed improvement in H-mode pedestal characteristics with increasing core plasma pressure or poloidal beta, as observed in MAST and JET, is sought in terms of the impact of the Shafranov shift, d', on ideal ballooning MHD stability.
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@article{arxiv.1603.08416,
title = {The Effect of Plasma Beta on High-n Ballooning Stability at Low Magnetic Shear},
author = {J W Connor and C J Ham and R J Hastie},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.08416},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
18 pages, 5 figures. This is an author-created, un-copyedited version of an article submitted for publication in Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. IoP Publishing Ltd is not responsible for any errors or omissions in this version of the manuscript or any version derived from it