The Role of Alpha Particles in Magnetically Confined Fusion Plasmas
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Physica Scripta
سال: 1987
ISSN: 0031-8949,1402-4896
DOI: 10.1088/0031-8949/1987/t16/e01