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2000
The kinetic theory of runaway electron avalanches caused by close Coulomb collisions is extended to account for radial diffusion. This is found to slow down the growth of avalanches. An approximate analytical formula for the growth rate is derived and is verified by a three-dimensional Monte Carlo code constructed for this purpose. As the poloidal …
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1998
The Small Tight Aspect Ratio Tokamak (START) [A. Sykes et al., Nucl. Fusion 32, 769 (1994)] spherical tokamak has recently achieved the record value of toroidal beta~30% in a tokamak-like configuration. The improvements that have made these results possible are presented along with a description of the global equilibrium parameters of the discharge…
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1997
An analysis of ion cyclotron resonance heating in a plasma containing two ion species is given. Particular emphasis is placed on the important case of comparable concentrations of the two species. The properties of ion-Bernstein waves in such a plasma are discussed. A summary of the cutoff– resonance (Budden) and cutoff–resonance–cutoff (trip…
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1992
A compact seven channel interferometer has been designed and built to measure electron density profiles in the COMPASS (compact assembly) tokamak. Two far-infrared (FIR) laser cavities are optically pumped with a single continuous-wave CO2 laser, generating two similar beams, with a small, tunable difference frequency (0.5-1.0 MHz). The COMPASS fac…
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