The influence of trapping effects on neutron production in NBI-heated tokamak plasmas

Journal of Plasma Physics

Volumn 57, Issue PART 4, 1997, Pages 793-804

  Wolle, B ^a   Jauch, Z ^a   Eriksson, L G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b CULHAM SCIENCE CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DEUTERIUM; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; NEUTRON EMISSION; PLASMA HEATING; PLASMAS;

TRAPPED PARTICLES;

TOKAMAK DEVICES;

EID: 0031146717     PISSN: 00223778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022377897005539     Document Type: Article

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