Abstract
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) |
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Pages (from-to) | 734-737 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Journal | Physical review letters |
Volume | 49 |
Issue number | 10 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 1982 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- General Physics and Astronomy