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The maximum-$J$ property in quasi-isodynamic stellarators
Plasma Physics · Submitted 24 Nov 2023
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The authors' main claim We find that it is possible to design such stellarators so that the maximum-$J$ condition is satisfied for the great majority of all particles, even when the plasma pressure vanishes.
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Some stellarators tend to benefit from favourable average magnetic curvature for trapped particles when the plasma pressure is sufficiently high. This so-called maximum-$J$-property has several positive implications such as good fast-particle confinement, magnetohydrodynamic stability, and suppression of certain trapped-particle instabilities. This property cannot be attained in quasisymmetric stellarators, in which deeply trapped particles experience average bad curvature and therefore precess in the diamagnetic direction close to the magnetic axis. However, quasi-isodynamic stellarators offer greater flexibility and allow the average curvature to be favourable and the precession to be reversed. We find that it is possible to design such stellarators so that the maximum-$J$ condition is satisfied for the great majority of all particles, even when the plasma pressure vanishes. The qualitative properties of such a stellarator field can be derived analytically by examining the most deeply and the most shallowly trapped particles, although some small fraction of the latter will inevitably not behave as desired. However, through numerical optimisation, we construct a vacuum field in which 99.6% of all trapped particles satisfy the maximum-$J$ condition.
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| s0 | Some stellarators tend to benefit from favourable average magnetic curvature for trapped particles when the plasma pressure is sufficiently high. | background 1.00 | 0.06 | 0.04 | hedged possibility 0.95 |
| s1 | This so-called maximum-$J$-property has several positive implications such as good fast-particle confinement, magnetohydrodynamic stability, and suppression of certain trapped-particle instabilities. | background 0.93 | 0.08 | 0.05 | asserted 0.98 |
| s2 | This property cannot be attained in quasisymmetric stellarators, in which deeply trapped particles experience average bad curvature and therefore precess in the diamagnetic direction close to the magnetic axis. | background 0.89 | 0.08 | 0.04 | asserted 1.00 |
| s3 | However, quasi-isodynamic stellarators offer greater flexibility and allow the average curvature to be favourable and the precession to be reversed. | background 0.63 | 0.12 | 0.12 | asserted 0.91 |
| s4 | We find that it is possible to design such stellarators so that the maximum-$J$ condition is satisfied for the great majority of all particles, even when the plasma pressure vanishes. | result 0.97 | 0.92 | 0.54 | hedged possibility 0.58 |
| s5 | The qualitative properties of such a stellarator field can be derived analytically by examining the most deeply and the most shallowly trapped particles, although some small fraction of the latter will inevitably not behave as desired. | method 0.73 | 0.65 | 0.09 | asserted 0.86 |
| s6 | However, through numerical optimisation, we construct a vacuum field in which 99.6% of all trapped particles satisfy the maximum-$J$ condition. | result 0.90 | 0.96 | 0.59 | asserted 1.00 |
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Some stellarators tend to benefit from favourable average magnetic curvature for trapped particles when the plasma pressure is sufficiently high. This so-called maximum-$J$-property has several positive implications such as good fast-particle confinement, magnetohydrodynamic stability, and suppression of certain trapped-particle instabilities. This property cannot be attained in quasisymmetric stellarators, in which deeply trapped particles experience average bad curvature and therefore precess in the diamagnetic direction close to the magnetic axis. However, quasi-isodynamic stellarators offer greater flexibility and allow the average curvature to be favourable and the precession to be reversed. We find that it is possible to design such stellarators so that the maximum-$J$ condition is satisfied for the great majority of all particles, even when the plasma pressure vanishes. The qualitative properties of such a stellarator field can be derived analytically by examining the most deeply and the most shallowly trapped particles, although some small fraction of the latter will inevitably not behave as desired. However, through numerical optimisation, we construct a vacuum field in which 99.6% of all trapped particles satisfy the maximum-$J$ condition.
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Quasi-isodynamic stellarators are a particular type of optimised stellarator [ref] which can be designed to have this property [ref] .
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