Abstract
The Helicity Injected Torus with Steady Inductive Helicity Injection (HIT-SI) consists of an axisymmetric flux conserver and two half-torus magnetic helicity injectors, mounted on either side of the axisymmetric confinement region (Jarboe et al., 2006, Phys. Rev. Lett., 97, 115003). Current and flux are driven sinusoidally with time in each injector, injecting both power and magnetic helicity into the HIT-SI device, with the goal of forming and sustaining a spheromak in the confinement region. Recent HIT-SI results include formation of discharges with toroidal spheromak current 1.5 times the injector current amplitude, development of a Taylor-state model for the magnetic fields in HIT-SI discharges, and direct measurement of the portion of the induced injector electric field that drives current in the confinement region.
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