Published September 1977 | Version v1
Report

High-beta tokamaks by pinch techniques

  • 1. Columbia Univ., New York, NY

Description

Pulsed high beta tokamaks (toroidal pinches), which use magnetic implosion and adiabatic compression in addition to ohmic heating to create a high-beta toroidal plasma configuration, are considered. The theoretical results which are common to the toroidal pinch and the flux-conserving tokamak approaches are summarized, with additional emphasis on force-free currents. The various high beta tokamak experiments are reviewed, with an attempt to interpret their results in a consistent and critical manner. 27 references, 1 table

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Publishing Information

Imprint Title
Proceedings of the finite beta theory workshop
Journal Page Range
p. 187-192.
Report number
CONF-7709167--

Conference

Title
Finite beta theory workshop.
Dates
Sep 1977.
Place
Varenna, Italy.