Abstract
Experiments with plasma heating by waves at the ion cyclotron resonance of a minority species have shown that the heating efficiency degrades above a certain power threshold. It is found that this threshold is due to the destabilization of a branch of shear Alfvén waves, the Energetic Particle Modes, which causes a diffusive loss of fast ions. These modes not only play a fundamental role in the transport of the fast ions, but appear closely related to the formation of giant sawteeth.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1880-1884 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | Physics of Plasmas |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue number | 5 I |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - May 1999 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Condensed Matter Physics