Rotational Resonance of Nonaxisymmetric Magnetic Braking in the KSTAR Tokamak

J.-K. Park, Y. M. Jeon, J. E. Menard, W. H. Ko, S. G. Lee, Y. S. Bae, M. Joung, K.-I. You, K.-D. Lee, N. Logan, K. Kim, J. S. Ko, S. W. Yoon, S. H. Hahn, J. H. Kim, W. C. Kim, Y.-K. Oh, and J.-G. Kwak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 095002 – Published 27 August 2013

Abstract

One of the important rotational resonances in nonaxisymmetric neoclassical transport has been experimentally validated in the KSTAR tokamak by applying highly nonresonant $n = 1$ magnetic perturbations to rapidly rotating plasmas. These so-called bounce-harmonic resonances are expected to occur in the presence of magnetic braking perturbations when the toroidal rotation is fast enough to resonate with periodic parallel motions of trapped particles. The predicted and observed resonant peak along with the toroidal rotation implies that the toroidal rotation in tokamaks can be controlled naturally in favorable conditions to stability, using nonaxisymmetric magnetic perturbations.