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Fast-wave current drive in a toroidal plasma
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Fast-wave current drive in a toroidal plasma

J Goree, M Ono, P Colestock, R Horton, D Mcneill and H Park
Physical review letters, Vol.55(16), pp.1669-1672
1985
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.55.1669
PMID: 10031888

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Abstract

ast-wave current drive is demonstrated in the Princeton ACT-I toroidal device. The fast Alfvén wave, in the range of high ion-cyclotron harmonics, produced 40 A of current from 1 kW of rf power coupled into a plasma by a fast-wave loop antenna. This wave excites a steady current by damping on the energetic tail of the electron distribution function in the same way as lower-hybrid current drive, except that fast-wave current drive is appropriate for higher plasma densities.
Physics Exact sciences and technology Magnetic confinement and equilibrium Physics of gases, plasmas and electric discharges Physics of plasmas and electric discharges

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