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arXiv, 2023

DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2312.05216

American Institute of Physics, Physics of Plasmas, 3(31), 2024

DOI: 10.1063/5.0190818

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Kinetic-ballooning-bifurcation in tokamak pedestals across shaping and aspect-ratio

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Abstract

We use a new gyrokinetic threshold model to predict a bifurcation in tokamak pedestal width-height scalings that depends strongly on plasma shaping and aspect-ratio. The bifurcation arises from the first and second stability properties of kinetic-ballooning-modes that yields wide and narrow pedestal branches, expanding the space of accessible pedestal widths and heights. The wide branch offers potential for edge-localized-mode-free pedestals with high core pressure. For negative triangularity, low-aspect-ratio configurations are predicted to give steeper pedestals than conventional-aspect-ratio. Both wide and narrow branches have been attained in tokamak experiments.