Current drive experiments on the plt tokamak

F. Jobes; S. Bernabei; P. Efthimion; W. Hooke; J. Hosea; E. Mazzucato; E. Meservey; R. Motley; J. Stevens; S. Von Goeler

doi:10.1088/0031-8949/1982/T2B/018

Current drive experiments on the plt tokamak

F. Jobes
, S. Bernabei
, P. Efthimion
, W. Hooke
, J. Hosea
, E. Mazzucato
, E. Meservey
, R. Motley
, J. Stevens
, S. Von Goeler

Plasma Physics Lab

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Lower hybrid current-drive experiments have been carried out on the PLT Tokamak. Steady currents up to 175kA have been maintained for three seconds and 400kA for 0.3s by the rf power alone. The principal current carrier appears to be a high energy (∼100keV) electron tail, concentrated in the central 20–40 cm diameter core of the 80cm PLT discharge. Effective current drive is observed only for ⊼_e≦8×10¹²cm^-3. This limitation may be a wave propagation phenomenon and not a fundamental plasma physics effect.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	418-422
Number of pages	5
Journal	Physica Scripta
Volume	1982
Issue number	T2B
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/0031-8949/1982/T2B/018
State	Published - Jan 1 1982

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Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Mathematical Physics
Condensed Matter Physics
General Physics and Astronomy

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