Nature Communications (Nov 2016)

Confirmation of the topology of the Wendelstein 7-X magnetic field to better than 1:100,000

  • T. Sunn Pedersen,
  • M. Otte,
  • S. Lazerson,
  • P. Helander,
  • S. Bozhenkov,
  • C. Biedermann,
  • T. Klinger,
  • R. C. Wolf,
  • H. -S. Bosch,
  • The Wendelstein 7-X Team

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13493
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Early stellarator designs suffered from high particle losses, an issue that can be addressed by optimization of the coils. Here the authors measure the magnetic field lines in the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator, confirming that the complicated design of the superconducting coils has been realized successfully.