Magnetic helicity balance in the sustained spheromak plasma experiment

Physics of Plasmas

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 2912-2924

  Stallard, B W ^a   Hooper, E B ^a   Woodruff, S ^a   Bulmer, R H ^a   Hill, D N ^a   McLean, H S ^a   Wood, R D ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRONS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIZATION;

MAGNETIC HELICITY BALANCE;

PLASMAS;

EID: 0038782142     PISSN: 1070664X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1580121     Document Type: Article

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