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Title: Observation of fully detached divertor integrated with improved core confinement for tokamak fusion plasmas

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  1. General Atomics, San Diego, CA (United States)
  2. Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei (China)
  3. Oak Ridge Associated Univ., Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
  4. Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
  5. Sandia National Lab. (SNL-CA), Livermore, CA (United States)
  6. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
  7. Princeton Univ., NJ (United States)
  8. Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States)
  9. Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
General Atomics, San Diego, CA (United States); Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Fusion Energy Sciences (FES); National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC); National Magnetic Confinement Fusion Science Program of China; USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
OSTI Identifier:
1782796
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1781923; OSTI ID: 1866180; OSTI ID: 1871411
Report Number(s):
LLNL-JRNL-829019; LLNL-JRNL-834530
Journal ID: ISSN 1070-664X; TRN: US2210041
Grant/Contract Number:  
FC02-04ER54698; AC04–94AL85000; NA0003525; AC52–07NA27344; 11922513; 11775264; 2017YFE0301300; 2017YFE0300404; AC04-94AL85000; AC52-07NA27344
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Physics of Plasmas
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 28; Journal Issue: 5; Journal ID: ISSN 1070-664X
Publisher:
American Institute of Physics (AIP)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY; Plasmas; Tokamaks

Citation Formats

Wang, H. Q., Wang, L., Ding, S., Garofalo, A. M., Gong, X. Z., Eldon, D., Guo, H. Y., Leonard, A. W., Hyatt, A. W., Qian, J. P., Weisberg, D. B., McClenaghan, J., Fenstermacher, M. E., Osborne, T. H., Lasnier, C. J., Watkins, J. G., Shafer, M. W., Grierson, B. A., Xu, G. S., Yan, Z., Mckee, G. R., Huang, J., Ren, J., Buttery, R. J., Humphreys, D. A., Thomas, D. M., Zhang, B., and Liu, J. B. Observation of fully detached divertor integrated with improved core confinement for tokamak fusion plasmas. United States: N. p., 2021. Web. doi:10.1063/5.0048428.
Wang, H. Q., Wang, L., Ding, S., Garofalo, A. M., Gong, X. Z., Eldon, D., Guo, H. Y., Leonard, A. W., Hyatt, A. W., Qian, J. P., Weisberg, D. B., McClenaghan, J., Fenstermacher, M. E., Osborne, T. H., Lasnier, C. J., Watkins, J. G., Shafer, M. W., Grierson, B. A., Xu, G. S., Yan, Z., Mckee, G. R., Huang, J., Ren, J., Buttery, R. J., Humphreys, D. A., Thomas, D. M., Zhang, B., & Liu, J. B. Observation of fully detached divertor integrated with improved core confinement for tokamak fusion plasmas. United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0048428
Wang, H. Q., Wang, L., Ding, S., Garofalo, A. M., Gong, X. Z., Eldon, D., Guo, H. Y., Leonard, A. W., Hyatt, A. W., Qian, J. P., Weisberg, D. B., McClenaghan, J., Fenstermacher, M. E., Osborne, T. H., Lasnier, C. J., Watkins, J. G., Shafer, M. W., Grierson, B. A., Xu, G. S., Yan, Z., Mckee, G. R., Huang, J., Ren, J., Buttery, R. J., Humphreys, D. A., Thomas, D. M., Zhang, B., and Liu, J. B. Fri . "Observation of fully detached divertor integrated with improved core confinement for tokamak fusion plasmas". United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0048428. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1782796.
@article{osti_1782796,
title = {Observation of fully detached divertor integrated with improved core confinement for tokamak fusion plasmas},
author = {Wang, H. Q. and Wang, L. and Ding, S. and Garofalo, A. M. and Gong, X. Z. and Eldon, D. and Guo, H. Y. and Leonard, A. W. and Hyatt, A. W. and Qian, J. P. and Weisberg, D. B. and McClenaghan, J. and Fenstermacher, M. E. and Osborne, T. H. and Lasnier, C. J. and Watkins, J. G. and Shafer, M. W. and Grierson, B. A. and Xu, G. S. and Yan, Z. and Mckee, G. R. and Huang, J. and Ren, J. and Buttery, R. J. and Humphreys, D. A. and Thomas, D. M. and Zhang, B. and Liu, J. B.},
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doi = {10.1063/5.0048428},
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place = {United States},
year = {Fri May 07 00:00:00 EDT 2021},
month = {Fri May 07 00:00:00 EDT 2021}
}

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