Abstract
Magnetically confined plasmas in the high confinement regime are regularly subjected to relaxation oscillations, termed edge localized modes (ELMs), leading to large transport events. Present ELM theories rely on a combined effect of edge current and the edge pressure gradients which result in intermediate mode number (n≅10-15) structures (filaments) localized in the perpendicular plane and extended along the field lines. By detailed localized measurements of the magnetic field perturbation associated to type-I ELM filaments, it is shown that these filaments carry a substantial current. © 2011 American Physical Society.
| Original language | English |
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| Journal | Physical Review Letters |
| Volume | 106 |
| Issue number | 12 |
| Pages (from-to) | 125002 |
| ISSN | 0031-9007 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2011 |
Keywords
- Fusion energy
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