MHD spectroscopy through detecting toroidal Alfven eigenmodes and Alfven wave cascades

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作者
Sharapov, SE [1 ]
Testa, D
Alper, B
Borba, DN
Fasoli, A
Hawkes, NC
Heeter, RF
Mantsinen, M
Von Hellermann, MG
机构
[1] UKAEA Euratom Fus Assoc, Culham Sci Ctr, Abingdon OX14 3DB, Oxon, England
[2] MIT, Plasma Sci & Fus Ctr, Cambridge, MA USA
[3] EFDA JET, Close Support Unit, Lisbon, Portugal
[4] EURATOM IST Assoc, Lisbon, Portugal
[5] Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab, Livermore, CA 94551 USA
[6] Helsinki Univ Technol, Associat Euratom Tekes, Helsinki, Finland
[7] Euratom FOM Assoc, Nieuwegein, Netherlands
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10.1016/S0375-9601(01)00588-6
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
摘要
Toroidal Alfven eigenmodes and a new class of modes, the Alfven cascades, excited by energetic ions are observed in the JET tokamak. Measurements of these Alfven instabilities are used to solve the inverse problem of identifying the plasma parameters using the dependence of the Alfven spectrum on equilibrium parameters. Crown copyright (C) 2001 Published by Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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页码:127 / 134
页数:8
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