Enhanced performance in the START tokamak

被引:12
作者
Carolan, PG [1 ]
Akers, RJ
Appel, L
Conway, NJ
Counsell, GF
Field, AR
Gates, DA
Gee, SJ
Gryaznevich, MP
Jenkins, I
Martin, R
Morel, K
Morris, AW
Nightingale, MPS
Roach, CM
Sykes, A
Tukachinsky, A
Tournianski, MR
Walsh, MJ
机构
[1] UKAEA Euratom Fus Assoc, Culham Sci Ctr, Abingdon OX14 3DB, Oxon, England
[2] AF Ioffe Phys Tech Inst, St Petersburg 194021, Russia
[3] Univ Essex, Colchester CO4 3SQ, Essex, England
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D O I
10.1088/0741-3335/40/5/009
中图分类号
O35 [流体力学]; O53 [等离子体物理学];
学科分类号
070204 ; 080103 ; 080704 ;
摘要
The combination of additional heating of less than or similar to 1 MW neutral beam injection and wall conditioning (boronization, titanium gettering and inter-shot helium-glow-discharge cleaning) has allowed the START spherical tokamak to achieve record beta values of beta(T) similar to 32%. Here we report the more recent demonstration of a transition to a higher confinement mode.
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页码:615 / 620
页数:6
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