Avalanche mechanism for runaway electron amplification in a tokamak plasma
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عنوان ژورنال: Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion
سال: 2019
ISSN: 0741-3335,1361-6587
DOI: 10.1088/1361-6587/ab0d6d