Midplane measurements of charged fusion product diffusion in the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor
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- 1 May 1993
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Physics of Fluids B: Plasma Physics
- Vol. 5 (5) , 1559-1566
Abstract
A radially movable detector located just below the outer midplane of the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor (TFTR) [in Plasma Physics and Controlled Nuclear Fusion Research, 1988 (International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, 1989), Vol. 1, p. 27] has been used to study the confinement of charged fusion products (CFP’s). The scrape-off length of escaping CFP flux was measured using perturbative techniques based on shadowing the detector with different obstacles. Experimental results indicate the presence of a diffusive process for trapped particles. Derived diffusion step sizes were found to be in excellent agreement with those expected from toroidal magnetic field (TF) stochastic ripple diffusion.Keywords
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