1. Strong Isotope Effect in Energy Confinement at the FT-2 Tokamak
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A. D. Gurchenko, E. Z. Gusakov, A. B. Altukhov, O. A. Kaledina, N. V. Tropin, S. I. Lashkul, L. A. Esipov, D. V. Kuprienko, G. A. Troshin, and S. V. Shatalin
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inorganic chemicals ,Tokamak ,Materials science ,Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous) ,Hydrogen ,chemistry.chemical_element ,01 natural sciences ,010305 fluids & plasmas ,law.invention ,Physics::Plasma Physics ,law ,0103 physical sciences ,Kinetic isotope effect ,Physics::Atomic Physics ,Nuclear Experiment ,010302 applied physics ,Isotope ,Turbulence ,Drop (liquid) ,technology, industry, and agriculture ,Plasma ,Condensed Matter Physics ,Deuterium ,chemistry ,Physics::Space Physics ,lipids (amino acids, peptides, and proteins) ,Atomic physics - Abstract
The effect of the isotope content of plasma (hydrogen/deuterium) on energy confinement time was studied at the FT-2 tokamak. A strong isotope effect is discovered, which is manifested in the deuterium plasma in high-density regimes. A correlation is shown between the improvement of the energy confinement in deuterium and the drop in the turbulence level at the plasma periphery.
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- 2019
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