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The misalignment of field coils in tokamaks can lead to toroidal asymmetries in the magnetic field, which are known as intrinsic error fields. These error fields often lead to the formation of locked modes in the plasma, which limit the lowest density that is achievable. The intrinsic error fields on MAST have been determined by the direct measurement of the toroidal asymmetry of the fields from these coils and have been parameterised in terms of distortions to the coils. The error fields are corrected using error field correction coils, where the optimum correction is found by determining the current required to ensure that the discharge is furthest from the onset of a locked mode. These empirically derived corrections have been compared with the known coil distortions. In the vacuum approximation there is a factor of ~ 3 difference between the predicted and empirically determined correction. When the plasma response is included better agreement is obtained, but there are still some cases where the agreement is not good, which suggests that other effects such as the non-linear coupling of the error field to the plasma are important.
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