Plasma rotation in the PDX tokamak

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Toroidal and poloidal rotation has been measured in the Poloidal Divertor Experiment (PDX) tokamak in ohmic- and neutral-beam-heated plasmas in a variety of discharge conditions and in both circular and diverted configurations. Rotation velocities were deduced from Doppler shifts of magnetic dipole (M1) lines and lines of optically allowed transitions in the visible and uv regions, from K/sub ..cap alpha../ emission, and also from an array of magnetic pickup loops. Poloidal and toroidal rotation velocities in ohmically heated discharges were unusually less than 3 x 10/sup 5/ cm/sec. Near the plasma edge the toroidal-rotation velocity varies with poloidal angle both before and during neutral-beam injection. No systematic poloidal rotation was observed during neutral-beam injection centered about or displaced 10 cm from the horizontal midplane, which implies that the poloidal damping time tau/sub theta/ < 0.5 tau/sub ii/, consistent with theoretical estimates.

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