(Confinement and heating of high beta plasmas. Annual progress report)

Technical Report · Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1986

OSTI ID:5190797

Final measurements have been made of flux surfaces and equilibrium pressure balance with improved magnetic probes on the ''steady'' hardcore system with 6 msec risetime. These measurements were made with the power crowbar on the main B/sub z/ and l = 1 stellarator fields. Pressure balance measurements show a ..beta.. distribution peaking at about 40% (centered on the ''bean''). Theoretical work that shows the equivalence of a hardcore shift of 2.5 cm (with respect to the l = 1 axis) and toroidal effects corresponding to aspect ratios >17. Some operational results of the coaxial slow source for compact toroids are described.

• Research Organization: Washington Univ., Seattle (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AT06-72ET53047
• OSTI ID: 5190797
• Report Number(s): DOE/ET/53047-24; ON: DE86015419
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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