Effects of Anisotropy of End Loss Electrons on Axial Potential Profile and Electron Transport in the End Region of a Tandem Mirror

Journal of the Physical Society of Japan

Volumn 66, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 3809-3814

  Saito, Teruo ^b   Tatematsu, Yoshinori ^b   Kiwamoto, Yasuhito ^b   Miyaue, Hidetoshi ^b   Yoshimura, Yasuo ^a,b   Tamano, Teruo ^b   Yatsu, Kiyoshi ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR FUSION SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anisotropy; Electron transport; Potential profile; Tandem mirror

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031329754     PISSN: 00319015     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1143/JPSJ.66.3809     Document Type: Article

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