Abstract
A study was performed on high confinement mode (H-mode) threshold and dynamics in the National Spherical Torus Experiment (NSTX). The H-modes in spherical torus (ST) exhibit differences compared with tokamaks because the edge magnetic topology of a ST differs from a conventional aspect ratio tokamak. It was found that the comparisons between good L-modes and H-modes show greater differences in the ion channel than the electron channel.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1755-1764 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| Journal | Physics of Plasmas |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue number | 5 II |
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| State | Published - May 2003 |