Published April 1988 | Version v1
Journal article

Plasma equilibrium in self-sustaining toroidal discharge

  • 1. Chubu Univ., Kasugai, Aichi (Japan)

Description

It is shown that there exists a plasma equilibrium in a toroidal discharge without the toroidal field, where the plasma current is composed solely of diamagnetic current, driven by the plasma pressure gradient and so is of self-sustaining in principle. This type of configuration seems to suggest a tokamak like device and its corresponding operation for the FRC experiment or to offer a new method of initial current build-up in the tokamak. (author)

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Kaku Yugo Kenkyu
Journal Volume
59
Journal Issue
4
Series
Kaku Yugo Kenkyu.
Journal Page Range
296-300
ISSN
0451-2375
CODEN
KAKEA