Experimental Characterization of the Electron Heat Transport in Low-Density ASDEX Upgrade Plasmas
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- 11 June 2001
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 86 (24) , 5498-5501
Abstract
The electron heat transport is investigated in ASDEX Upgrade conventional -mode plasmas with pure electron heating provided by electron-cyclotron heating (ECH) at low density. Under these conditions, steady-state and ECH modulation experiments indicate without ambiguity that electron heat transport exhibits a clear threshold in and also suggest that it has a gyro-Bohm character.
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