High-Plasmas in the PBX Tokamak
- 13 October 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 57 (15), 1891-1894
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.57.1891
Abstract
Bean-shaped configurations have been successfully formed in the PBX tokamak and values of over 5% have been obtained. These discharges still lie in the first stability regime for ballooning modes, and magnetohydrodynamics stability analysis implicates the external kink as responsible for the present limit.
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