Effect of Halo Current and Its Toroidal Asymmetry During Disruptions in JT-60U
- 1 November 1995
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Informa UK Limited in Fusion Technology
- Vol. 28 (4), 1634-1643
- https://doi.org/10.13182/fst95-a30430
Abstract
A poloidal halo current due to a vertical displacement event (VDE) is observed in experimentally simulated VDE discharges and density limit disruptions in the JT-60U tokamak. In the case of a clockwise Ip and BT discharge, the halo current flows into the vacuum vessel from the inside separatrix and goes back to the plasma from the outside separatrix. A maximum halo current is produced by a change in the poloidal flux generated by plasma current decay. A toroidal asymmetry factor of 2.5 is estimated from the requirements of the fracture of the carbon-fiber composite tiles. The toroidal asymmetry is caused by the poloidal field (PF) that is produced by the toroidal field (TF) ripple, the deformation of the vacuum vessel, the setting error between the vacuum vessel and the TF and PF coils, the low-n mode during current quench, etc. To consider this asymmetry, in JT-60U, one must estimate the total halo current as ∼26% of the plasma current just before a current quench.Keywords
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