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Non-Maxwellian ion distributions caused by neoclassical heat conduction

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:6243220
It is shown that in tokamaks with neoclassical banana regime heat conduction and ion self collisions dominant for energy scattering, the distribution tail diffuses outwards radially and downwards in energy maintaining a constant effective temperature (- delta lnf/sub i//delta epsilon)/sup -1/, as observed in some experiments.
Research Organization:
Texas Univ., Austin (USA). Inst. for Fusion Studies
DOE Contract Number:
FG05-80ET53088
OSTI ID:
6243220
Report Number(s):
DOE/ET/53088-90; ON: DE83011490
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English