Advances in measurement and modeling of the high-confinement-mode pedestal on the Alcator C-Mod tokamak

Physics of Plasmas

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2006, Pages

  Hughes, J W ^a   LaBombard, B ^a   Mossessian, D A ^a,b   Hubbard, A E ^a   Terry, J ^a   Biewer, T ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b JWM Partners LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDGE TRANSPORT BARRIER (ETB); ELECTROMAGNETIC FLUID; PEDESTAL PROFILES; PEDESTAL SCALINGS;

ELECTROMAGNETISM; PLASMA CONFINEMENT; PLASMA DENSITY; PLASMA STABILITY; TOKAMAK DEVICES; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

PLASMAS;

EID: 33744788612     PISSN: 1070664X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2180748     Document Type: Conference Paper

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