Heavy Particle Modes and Signature of the I-Regime
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Coppi, Bruno; Zhou, Tingtao
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The recently discovered properties of the I-confinement Regime are explained as resulting from the excitation of a heavy particle mode. The theoretically predicted mode phase velocity in the direction of the electron diamagnetic velocity and the induced confinement of impurities at the edge of the plasma column have been confirmed by the experiments. The direction of the mode phase velocity is consistent with that (opposite) of the spontaneous rotation in the plasma core. The mode is of the “ion-mixing” type, in that it does not produce any electron transport across the fields and it involves significant poloidal magnetic field fluctuations.
Date issued
2011-06Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of PhysicsJournal
Physics Letters A
Publisher
Elsevier
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Coppi, B., and T. Zhou. “Heavy Particle Modes and Signature of the I-Regime.” Physics Letters A 375, no. 32 (July 2011): 2916–2920.
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0375-9601