Abstract
Disruptions in Alcator C-Mod can generate large eddy currents in the highly conducting vacuum vessel and internal structures, including a significant poloidal component due to halo currents. In order to understand better the stresses arising from the resulting J*B forces, Alcator C-Mod has been fitted with a comprehensive set of sensors to measure the spatial distribution and temporal behaviour of the halo currents. It is found that they are toroidally asymmetric, with a typical peaking factor of 2. The asymmetric pattern usually rotates toroidally at a few kilohertz, thus ruling out first wall non-uniformities as the cause of the asymmetry. Analysis of the information compiled in the C-Mod disruption database indicates that the maximum halo current during a disruption scales roughly as either Ip2/Bphi or Ip/q95, but that there is a large amount of variation that is not yet understood
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