Possibility of Microturbulence Diagnostics in a Magnetically Confined Plasma Using Multiple Scattering Effects
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The idea of new diagnostics method for the small-scale irregular structures of magnetically confined plasma is suggested in the present paper. The method can be based on measurements of intensity attenuation of the normal sounding waves. Anomalous attenuation arises due to multiple scattering effects investigated earlier for ionospheric radio propagation. It has been shown that multiple scattering regime can realize in a tokamak plasma. Calculations of normal sounding wave anomalous attenuation in a tokamak plasma have been carried out. This quantity is large enough to be registered experimentally.
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