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Improving energy confinement in fusion plasmas by plasma shaping and current profile tailoring in the TCV tokamak P. Angelino, A. Bottino1, S. Brunner, Y. Camenen2, A. Pochelon, O. Sauter, L. Villard EPFL, CRPP, Association EURATOM Confédération Suisse, Station 13, 1015 Lausanne 1 present address: Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik, Postfach 1533, DE-85740 Garching bei München 2 present addre...

The static and time-dependent potential and surface charge correlations in a plasma with a boundary are computed for different shapes of the boundary. The case of a spheroidal or spherical one-component plasma is studied in detail because experimental results are available for such systems. Also, since there is some knowlegde both experimental and theoretical about the electrostatic collective ...

1 ITER Organization, Route de Vinon sur Verdon, 13067 Saint Paul Lez Durance, France 2 General Atomics, P.O. Box 85608, San Diego, California 92186-5608, USA 3 Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, New Jersey 08543-0451, USA 4 Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, 85748 Garching, Germany

The dynamics and stability of the resistive wall mode (RWM) are investigated in the JT-60U high-β plasmas, and the sustainment of high-β plasmas above the ideal no-wall β-limit βno-wall N has been demonstrated using a plasma rotation. To suppress an n = 1 RWM that limits the achievable βN in the regime βN > βno-wall N , the plasma rotation is kept larger than the critical rotation. Therefore, w...

The newly designed plasma display with the cylindrical hollow cathode has been proposed and investigated to study the relationship between the photoluminous efficiency and the discharge characteristics. The photoluminous efficiency and the discharge characteristics are dependent on the geometry factors of cylindrical hollow cathode and gas pressure in the plasma display. When p (gas pressure) d...

The problem of collisionless expansion of two-species spherical plasma into vacuum is solved numerically by using of a spherical coordinate electrostatic particle code. A theoretical solution is also presented for the case of Coulomb explosion when light ions can be treated as an impurity. The expansion of the two-ion-species clusters is shown to be a source of high quality mono-energetic ions ...

M. Kondo, S. Nunomura and T. Matsui Research Center for Photovoltaics, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, 1-1-1 Umezono, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8568, Japan

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Effect of the induced Compton and Raman scattering on short, bright radio pulses is investigated. It is shown that when a single pulse propagates through the scattering medium, the effective optical depth is determined by the duration of the pulse but not by the scale of the medium. The induced scattering could hinder propagation of the radio pulse only if close enough to the source a dense eno...