Adiabatic Compression of the Tokamak Discharge
- 27 November 1972
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 29 (22) , 1495-1498
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.29.1495
Abstract
A tokamak discharge of ∼ 1 keV is produced in the absence of conducting-wall magnetohydrodynamic stabilization, and then compressed in major radius by a factor of 2.3 in a static toroidal field. Measurements are reported on the resultant rise of density, temperature, and plasma current.
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