Impurity Transport in a Quiescent Tokamak Plasma

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S. Cohen · Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

J.L. Cecchi · Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

E. S. Marmar · Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

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We have injected short bursts of aluminum into the adiabatic-toroidal-compressor (ATC) tokamak, and measured the time evolution of the radial distribution of highly ionized states of aluminum. The results are compared with a computer code describing neoclassical impurity diffusion.

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Magnetic confinement fusion research Nuclear reactor physics and engineering Nuclear physics research studies

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Published in: Physical Review Letters

Volume 35, Issue 22, pp. 1507-1510

DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.35.1507

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