Recent Progress in Sawtooth Control
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1 École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Centre de Recherches en Physique des Plasmas, Association EURATOM-Confédération Suisse, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland 2UKAEA/Euratom Fusion Association, Culham Science Centre, Abingdon, UK 3Association Euratom-VR, KTH, SE-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden 4EFDA-JET CSU, Culham Science Centre, Abingdon, OX14 3DB, UK ∗ See the Appendix of F. Romanelli et al., Fusion Energy Conference 2008 (Proc. 22nd Int. FEC Geneva, 2008) IAEA, (2008)
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تاریخ انتشار 2010