Published January 1997 | Version v1
Journal article

Neoclassical Transport in Enhanced Confinement Toroidal Plasmas

  • 1. Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08543 (United States)

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It has recently been reported that ion thermal transport levels in enhanced confinement tokamak plasmas have been observed to fall below the open-quotes irreducible minimum levelclose quotes predicted by standard neoclassical theory. This apparent contradiction is resolved in the present analysis by relaxing the basic neoclassical assumption that the ion close-quote s orbital excursions are much smaller than the local toroidal minor radius and the equilibrium scale lengths of the system. copyright 1997 The American Physical Society

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Journal Title
Physical Review Letters
Journal Volume
78
Journal Issue
3
Journal Page Range
p. 456-459.
ISSN
0031-9007
CODEN
PRLTAO