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Piecewise omnigenous stellarators with zero bootstrap current
Iván Calvo1, José Luis Velasco1, Per Helander2
1CIEMAT, Laboratorio Nacional de Fusión, 28040 Madrid, Spain.
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Until now, quasi-isodynamic magnetic fields have been the only known stellarator configurations that, at low collisionality, give small radial neoclassical transport and zero bootstrap current for arbitrary plasma profiles, the latter facilitating control of the magnetic configuration. The recently introduced notion of piecewise omnigenous fields has enormously broadened the space of stellarator configurations with small radial neoclassical transport. In this Letter, the existence of piecewise omnigenous fields that give zero bootstrap current is proven analytically and confirmed numerically. These results establish piecewise omnigenity as an alternative approach to stellarator reactor design.
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