Transport implications of current drive by magnetic helicity injection

It is shown that in fusion plasma configurations sustained by electrode helicity injection, the core electron temperature (in electron volts) can, at most, be 25% to 40% of the electrode voltage (in volts). This result is obtained by assessing magnetic helicity injection as a driver of macroscopic s...

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Published in:Physics of plasmas 2001-11, Vol.8 (11), p.4839-4848
Main Authors: Moses, Ronald W., Gerwin, Richard A., Schoenberg, Kurt F.
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