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EFD-C(10)06/08

Scaling JET Disruption Sideways Forces to ITER

S.N. Gerasimov, T.C. Hender, M.F. Johnson, L.E. Zakharov and JET EFDA contributors

Abstract. A key feature of disruptions during VDE is toroidal variations in the measured plasma current and first current vertical moments. These asymmetries can lead to significant sideways forces as seen on JET. The observed asymmetries are a long lasting n=1 variation of the plasma current (I_p) and its first current (vertical) moment (Miz) and have been interpreted as kink mode m/n=1/1.

Preprint of Paper to be submitted for publication in Proceedings of the 37th EPS Conference on Plasma Physics, Dublin, Ireland. (21st June 2010 - 25th June 2010)

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