ECRH-assisted plasma start-up with toroidally inclined launch: Multi-machine comparison and perspectives for ITER

Nuclear Fusion

Volumn 51, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Stober, J ^a   Jackson, G L ^b   Ascasibar, E ^c   Bae, Y S ^d   Bucalossi, J ^e   Cappa, A ^c   Casper, T ^f   Cho, M H ^g   Gribov, Y ^f   Granucci, G ^h   Hanada, K ⁱ   Hobirk, J ^a   Hyatt, A W ^b   Ide, S ^j   Jeong, J H ^g   Joung, M ^d   Luce, T ^b   Lunt, T ^a   Namkung, W ^g   Park, S I ^g   Politzer, P A ^b   Schweinzer, J ^a   Sips, A C C ^k   more..

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PLASMAPHYSIK   (Germany)

^b GENERAL ATOMICS   (United States)

^c LABORATORIO NACIONAL DE FUSIÓN   (Spain)

^d National Fusion Research Institute   (South Korea)

^e IRFM   (France)

^f ITER ORGANIZATION   (France)

^g Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)   (South Korea)

^h IFP CNR   (Italy)

ⁱ KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^j JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^k CULHAM SCIENCE CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON CYCLOTRON RESONANCE HEATING; LOOP VOLTAGES; PLASMA BREAKDOWN; PLASMA START-UP; PRE-IONIZATION; VERTICAL FIELDS;

CYCLOTRONS; ELECTRON CYCLOTRON RESONANCE; EXPERIMENTS; MAGNETIC FIELDS;

LAUNCHING;

EID: 80051649661     PISSN: 00295515     EISSN: 17414326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0029-5515/51/8/083031     Document Type: Article

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