Published September 6, 1982 | Version v1
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Discharges with safety factor, q, <1 in a noncircular tokamak

Creators

  • 1. Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin at Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706

Description

Characteristics of plasmas in Tokapole II (a noncircular poloidal divertor tokamak) with directly measured q as low as 0.4 are discussed. This is a q regime bounded by well studied q>1 tokamaks and qroughly-equal0.1 reversed-field pinches. After q drops below 1, soft--x-ray sawtooth oscillations begin. During the oscillations the central q values remain stationary and below 1, while a small oscillation in the edge q values near q = 1 is observed

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Phys. Rev. Lett.
Journal Volume
49
Journal Issue
10
Series
Phys. Rev. Lett.
Journal Page Range
734-737
ISSN
0031-9007

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
United States
INIS RN
14735005
Subject category
S70: PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY;
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Numerical Data
Descriptors DEI
ELECTRIC DISCHARGES; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; PLASMA; TOKAPOLE DEVICES
Descriptors DEC
CLOSED PLASMA DEVICES; DATA; INFORMATION; INTERNAL RING DEVICES; NUMERICAL DATA; THERMONUCLEAR DEVICES; TOKAMAK DEVICES