Observation of Beam-Induced Currents in a Toroidal Plasma
- 5 June 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 40 (23), 1497-1500
- https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.40.1497
Abstract
We report the observation of a reverse electron current excited when fast ions are trapped in a toroidal plasma. The induced electron current was measured in the Culham superconducting Levitron as a function of electron temperature and found to be larger than that predicted assuming a shifted Maxwellian electron distribution.Keywords
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