Plasma potential measurements by the heavy ion beam probe diagnostic in fusion plasmas: BIASING experiments in the TJ-II stellarator and T-10 tokamak

Fusion Science and Technology

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 299-311

  Melnikov, Alexander V ^a   Hidalgo, C ^b   Chmyga, A A ^c   Dreval, N B ^c   Eliseev, L G ^a   Khrebtov, S M ^c   Komarov, A D ^c   Kozachok, A S ^c   Krupnik, L I ^c   Pastor, I ^b   Pedrosa, M A ^b   Perfilov, S V ^a   Mccarthy, K ^b   Ochando, M A ^b   Van Oost, G ^d   Silva, C ^e   Goncalves, B ^e   Dnestrovskij, Yu N ^a   Lysenko, S E ^a   Ufimtsev, M V ^f   Tereshin, V I ^c   more..

^a KURCHATOV INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^b CIEMAT   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTE OF PLASMA PHYSICS   (Ukraine)

^d GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^e INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^f MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Biasing; Heavy ion beam probe; TJ II stellarator and T 10 tokamak

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; HEAVY IONS; ION BEAMS; PLASMA CONFINEMENT; SHEAR FLOW; TURBULENCE;

FUSION DEVICES; NEOCLASSICAL TRANSPORT; STELLARATORS;

PLASMA DEVICES;

EID: 6444228044     PISSN: 15361055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.13182/FST04-A568     Document Type: Conference Paper

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