Physical Review Letters · 1988 · 99 citations · 5 references
Natural SciencesPhysicsNuclear PhysicsParticle PhysicsPlasma PhysicsFusion PlasmasHigh-temperature PlasmasMagnetic Confinement FusionPlasma HeatingPlasma OscillationsRadio-frequency HeatingHeating Of Tokamak PlasmasLaser Heating Of PlasmasMagnetic Confinement Plasma StabilitySawtooth OscillationsTokamak PhysicsTokamak PlasmasTokamak StabilityTrapped Populations
Recent experiments involving high-power radio-frequency heating of a tokamak plasma show strong suppression of the sawtooth oscillation. A high-energy trapped-particle population is shown to have a strong stabilizing effect on the internal resistive kink mode. Numerical calculations are in reasonable agreement with experment.
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