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Published on: July 1, 2013
Transport and reconnection in tokamak sawteeth
K W Gentle1, M E Austin, P E Phillips
1Fusion Research Center, University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712-1068, USA.
Abstract:
The core of a tokamak discharge often undergoes periodic relaxation oscillations, sawteeth, as the steepening current and temperature profiles are flattened by fast reconnection events. Careful analysis of the electron temperature evolution over this cycle gives an estimate of the energy dissipated in the electrons during reconnection and a measure of the transport characteristic (energy flux versus temperature gradient) over the range of parameters occurring over the remainder of the cycle. The energy dissipated is consistent with estimates of the loss of poloidal magnetic energy. The transport characteristics exhibit a wide range of behaviors.
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