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Piecewise Omnigenous Stellarators
J L Velasco1, I Calvo1, F J Escoto1
1Laboratorio Nacional de Fusión, <a href="https://ror.org/05xx77y52">CIEMAT</a>, 28040 Madrid, Spain.
Abstract:
In omnigenous magnetic fields, charged particles are perfectly confined in the absence of collisions and turbulence. For this reason, the magnetic configuration is optimized to be close to omnigenity in any candidate for a stellarator fusion reactor. However, approaching omnigenity imposes severe constraints on the spatial variation of the magnetic field. In particular, the topology of the contours of constant magnetic field strength on each magnetic surface must be such that there are no particles transitioning between different types of wells. This, in turn, usually leads to complicated plasma shapes and coils. This Letter presents a new family of optimized fields that display tokamak-like collisional energy transport while having transitioning particles. This result radically broadens the space of accessible reactor-relevant configurations.
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