The MAST Upgrade Super-X divertor protects plasma-facing components from heat fluxes during steady-state operation and transient events. This paper examines heat loads from sawtooth events with energies of ΔWsawtooth ≈ 2–9 kJ in lower single null plasmas. The impact of deuterium and nitrogen gas pressures on mitigating these transients is inve…
A nonlinear 4-dimensional drift island theory derived in (Imada et al 2019 Nucl. Fusion 59 046016 and references therein) provides qualitative predictions of the plasma response to a stationary neoclassical tearing mode (NTM) magnetic island in a low beta, large aspect ratio tokamak plasma. (Dudkovskaia et al 2021 Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion 63 05…