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Sawtooth Activity during Lower Hybrid Current Drive Experiment in HT-7 Superconducting Tokamak
Shen Wei-ci, Kuang Guang-li, Yuexiu Liu, Liu Deng-cheng, Guanghua Zheng, Liu Fu-kun, Jianan Lin, Wu Jun-shuan, Ding Bo-Jiang, Xu Handong, Yang Chun-sheng, Shang Lian-quan, Jiawen Yu
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Abstract
It has been found that lower hybrid waves excite various sawtooth oscillations during the HT-7 tokamak discharges. In this paper we present the results of lower hybrid current drive (LHCD) on sawtooth activity in a series of experiments with 2.45 GHz, 1 MW LH system on HT-7 superconducting tokamak. In these experiments, usually LH power is between 200 similar 400 kW, 2 ⩽ N // p ⩽ 3 (Δ N // = 0.8), and rf pulse in 500 ms. Sometimes, the sawtooth oscillation is accompanied by a wide range of magnetohydrodynamic activity in the plasma central region, normally with a m = 1/ n =1 mode. A LHCD partial suppression of sawtooth, a lengthening sawtooth and a saturation of sawtooth oscillations are also observed during our experiments.
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