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Energy Confinement Time

Energy Confinement Time is a fundamental performance metric in plasma confinement that quantifies the characteristic time scale over which thermal energy is retained within a confined plasma before being lost to the surroundings.

787

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366

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76

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Energy Confinement Time Constant

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Publications

787

Regime of Improved Confinement and High Beta in Neutral-Beam-Heated Divertor Discharges of the ASDEX Tokamak

F. Wagner, G. Becker, K. Behringer et al. · Physical Review Letters · 1982 · 2.2K citations

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Scalings for tokamak energy confinement

P. N. Yushmanov, T. Takizuka, Kurt S. Riedel et al. · Nuclear Fusion · 1990 · 602 citations

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Beta limits in long-pulse tokamak discharges

O. Sauter, R. J. La Haye, Z. Chang et al. · Physics of Plasmas · 1997 · 453 citations · Full text

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Model for the sawtooth period and amplitude

Francesco Porcelli, D. Boucher, M. N. Rosenbluth · Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion · 1996 · 426 citations

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Plasma confinement in JET H mode plasmas with H, D, DT and T isotopes

J.G. Cordey, B. Balet, D. V. Bartlett et al. · Nuclear Fusion · 1999 · 355 citations

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Authors

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    K.H. Burrell

    General Atomics (United States), United States

    32 publications · 2.5K citations

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  2. RJ
    R. J. Groebner

    General Atomics (United States), United States

    27 publications · 2.7K citations

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  3. SK
    S. Kaye

    Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, United States

    33 publications · 2.6K citations

    25

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  4. CE
    C. E. Bush

    Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, United States

    28 publications · 1.4K citations

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  5. RE
    R. E. Bell

    Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, United States

    26 publications · 1.6K citations

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Institutions

366

  1. Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

    Princeton, United States

    54 h-index

    1.8K publications

    113K citations

  2. General Atomics (United States)

    San Diego, United States

    50 h-index

    761 publications

    73.8K citations

  3. Princeton University

    Princeton, United States

    44 h-index

    1.3K publications

    71.5K citations

  4. Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics

    Garching, Germany

    37 h-index

    834 publications

    55.7K citations

  5. Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives

    Paris, France

    37 h-index

    203 publications

    11.8K citations

  6. Oak Ridge National Laboratory

    Oak Ridge, United States

    37 h-index

    433 publications

    17.2K citations

  7. University of Wisconsin–Madison

    Madison, United States

    33 h-index

    355 publications

    27.9K citations

  8. CEA Cadarache

    Saint-Paul-lès-Durance, France

    32 h-index

    185 publications

    10.7K citations

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  1. Nuclear Fusion

    342 publications · 17.4K citations

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  2. Physical Review Letters

    PRL · 66 publications · 6.8K citations

    44

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  3. Physics of Plasmas

    83 publications · 4.8K citations

    38

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  4. Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion

    127 publications · 4.9K citations

    36

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  5. Physics of Fluids B Plasma Physics

    21 publications · 1.4K citations

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