Measurements of beam ion losses on DIII-D due to MHD instabilities
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R.K. Fisher, D.C. Pace, M. García-Muñoz, R.L. Boivin, E.D. Fredrickson, W.W. Heidbrink, C.M. Muscatello, R. Nazikian, C.C. Petty, M.A. Van Zeeland, and Y.B. Zhu General Atomics, PO Box 85608, San Diego, CA 92186-9784, USA University of California-Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA Max Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik, Garching, Germany Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, PO Box 451, Princeton, NJ 08543-0451, USA
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