Plasma formation in START and MAST spherical tokamaks

Nuclear Fusion

Volumn 46, Issue 8, 2006, Pages

  Gryaznevich, M ^a   Shevchenko, V ^a   Sykes, A ^a  

^a CULHAM SCIENCE CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC BREAKDOWN; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTRON CYCLOTRON RESONANCE; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; IONIZATION; MAGNETIC FLUX; PARTICLE BEAM INJECTION; SOLENOIDS;

CYCLOTRON RESONANCE PREIONIZATION; DOUBLE-NULL MERGING; RADIO FREQUENCY (RF) POWER; SPHERICAL TOKAMAKS (ST);

TOKAMAK DEVICES;

EID: 33746606057     PISSN: 00295515     EISSN: 17414326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0029-5515/46/8/S02     Document Type: Article

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