Microtearing Instabilities and Electron Transport in the NSTX Spherical Tokamak
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Microtearing instabilities and electron transport in the NSTX spherical tokamak.
We report a successful quantitative account of the experimentally determined electron thermal conductivity chi(e) in a beam-heated H mode plasma by the magnetic fluctuations from microtearing instabilities. The calculated chi(e) based on existing nonlinear theory agrees with the result from transport analysis of the experimental data. Without using any adjustable parameter, the good agreement s...
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عنوان ژورنال: Physical Review Letters
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0031-9007,1079-7114
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.99.135003