Isotropy of Ion Heating During a Sawtooth Crash in a reversed-field pinch

Journal Article · Tue Aug 01 00:00:00 EDT 2000 · Physics of Plasmas

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1088/0741-3335/42/12/103· OSTI ID:783566

Den Hartog, D J; Craig, D

In the Madison Symmetric Torus reversed-field pinch, ions are impulsively heated during a sawtooth crash; the ion temperature more than doubles. Heating appears to be nearly isotropic; impurity ion temperature measured perpendicular to the magnetic field(t) is approximately equal to impurity ion temperature parallel to the magnetic field (T) during a sawtooth crash. Ion heating occurs simultaneously throughout the entire plasma volume, with no non-maxwellian distortion of the ion velocity distribution function.

• Research Organization: University of Wisconsin-Madison (US)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Energy Research (ER) (US)
• DOE Contract Number: FG02-96ER54345
• OSTI ID: 783566
• Report Number(s): DOE/ER54345-336; TRN: US0108348
• Journal Information: Physics of Plasmas, Other Information: Submitted to Physics of Plasmas; PBD: 1 Aug 2000
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY
DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS
HEATING
ION TEMPERATURE
ISOTROPY
MAGNETIC FIELDS
PLASMA WAVES
MST DEVICE
REVERSE-FIELD PINCH
SAWTOOTH OSCILLATIONS