Trapping of Gun-Injected Plasma by a Tokamak

A. W. Leonard, R. N. Dexter, and J. C. Sprott
Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706
(Received 24 January 1986)

ABSTRACT

It is shown that a plasma produced by a Marshall gun can be injected into and trapped by a tokamak plasma. Gun injection raises the line-averaged density and peaks the density profile. Trapping of the gun-injected plasma is explainable in terms of a depolarization current mechanism.

Ref: A. W. Leonard, R. N. Dexter, and J. C. Sprott, Phys. Rev. Lett. 57, 333-336 (1986)

The complete paper is available in PDF format.

Return to Sprott's Books and Publications.