Published July 1993 | Version v1
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Fluctuation and modulation transport studies in the Advanced Toroidal Facility (ATF) torsatron

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The Advanced Toroidal Facility (ATF) torsatron [Fusion Technol. 10, 179 (1986)] has completed experiments focusing on microwave scattering measurements of density fluctuations and transport studies utilizing the modulation of dimensionless parameters. Microwave scattering measurements of electron density fluctuations in the core of low-collisionality electron cyclotron heated (ECH) plasmas show features that might be evidence of trapped electron instabilities. Starting from gyro-Bohm scaling, the additional dependence of confinement on the dimensionless parameters ν* and β (collisionality and beta) has been investigated by modulating each of these parameters separately, revealing the additional favorable dependence, τE∝τgBν*-0.18β+0.3

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Journal Title
Physics of Fluids B
Journal Volume
5
Journal Issue
7
Journal Page Range
p. 2513-2518.
ISSN
0899-8221
CODEN
PFBPEI