Abstract
Investigated are the effects of energetic particles (EPs), arising from off-axis neutral beam injection, on the resistive wall mode (RWM) instability in tokamaks. The analytic results for a cylindrical plasma show that EPs contribute the strongest kinetic damping to the RWM, as the deposition radius approaches the peak location of the mode eigenfunction. Toroidal computations are also carried out utilizing the MARS-K code, which includes EPs with anisotropic equilibrium distribution in the particle pitch angle space. These self-consistent numerical results confirm the analytic finding, that the RWM growth rate decreases as the peak of the EPs’ radial density profile approaches the maximum of the mode displacement. This study thus demonstrates the possibility of the RWM stabilization by the off-axis neutral beam injection in tokamak experiments.
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