Observation of the effects of radially sheared electric fields on the suppression of turbulent vortex structures and the associated transverse loss in GAMMA 10

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Cho, T [1 ]
Yoshida, M
Kohagura, J
Hirata, M
Numakura, T
Higaki, H
Hojo, H
Ichimura, M
Ishii, K
Islam, KM
Itakura, A
Katanuma, I
Nakashima, Y
Saito, T
Tatematsu, Y
Yoshikawa, M
Kojima, Y
Tokioka, S
Yokoyama, N
Tomii, Y
Imai, T
Pastukhov, VP
Miyoshi, S
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[1] Univ Tsukuba, Plasma Res Ctr, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 3058577, Japan
[2] Russian Res Ctr, Kurchatov Inst, Moscow, Russia
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.085002
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
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Vortexlike turbulent structures in hot-ion mode plasmas with several keV are observed in the case with a radially produced weak shear of electric fields E-r. However, a strong E-r shear formation due to a high ion-confining potential phi(c) production clears up these vortices together with plasma-confinement improvement and disappearance of both drift-wave and turbulencelike Fourier spectral signals. These findings are based on three-time progress in phi(c) in comparison to phi(c) attained 1992-2002. The significant advance of phi(c) is well extended in line with proposed potential-formation physics scalings.
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