Abstract
The m =1 island size or m =1 deformation of magnetic surfaces during sawtooth crashes is estimated on TFTR by comparing experimental observations of X-rays and ECE electron temperature with a simple simulation which calculates signals of line-integrated X-ray and local electron temperature assuming rigid rotation of the plasma. Sawteeth oscillations with a slow crash (τ crash ∼several ms) can be simulated by a Kadomtsev-type reconnection model in which an m =1 island grows to the size of the q =1 surface during the sawtooth crash. In the sawteeth which have a fast crash (50 µs∼τ crash ∼500 µs), the m =1 island size sometimes (not always) becomes ∼1/2 of the sawtooth inversion radius during the crash phase. The final structure, however, is hard to identify, because of the slow plasma rotation frequency. The “Hot Core” appears to move away from the plasma center in a Kadomtsev-type reconnection without causing very large transport or diffusion.
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