High β produced by neutral beam injection in the START (Small Tight Aspect Ratio Tokamak) spherical tokamak

Physics of Plasmas

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1665-1671

  Sykes, Alan ^a  

^a CULHAM SCIENCE CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

BEAM INJECTION HEATING; BETA RATIO; ELECTRON TEMPERATURE; ION TEMPERATURE; NEUTRAL ATOM BEAM INJECTION; PLASMA DIAGNOSTICS; START TOKAMAK

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000556910     PISSN: 1070664X     EISSN: 10897674     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.872271     Document Type: Conference Paper

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