Discharges with safety factor, q, <1 in a noncircular tokamak

T. H. Osborne; R. N. Dexter; S. C. Prager

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.49.734

Discharges with safety factor, q, <1 in a noncircular tokamak

T. H. Osborne, R. N. Dexter, S. C. Prager

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Characteristics of plasmas in Tokapole II (a noncircular poloidal divertor tokamak) with directly measured q as low as 0.4 are discussed. This is a q regime bounded by well studied q>1 tokamaks and q0.1 reversed-field pinches. After q drops below 1, soft-x-ray sawtooth oscillations begin. During the oscillations the central q values remain stationary and below 1, while a small oscillation in the edge q values near q=1 is observed.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	734-737
Number of pages	4
Journal	Physical review letters
Volume	49
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.49.734
State	Published - 1982
Externally published	Yes

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