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Energetic particle instabilities in fusion plasmas

Plasma Physics 2013-11-01 v1

Abstract

Remarkable progress has been made in diagnosing energetic particle instabilities on present-day machines and in establishing a theoretical framework for describing them. This overview describes the much improved diagnostics of Alfven instabilities and modelling tools developed world-wide, and discusses progress in interpreting the observed phenomena. A multi-machine comparison is presented giving information on the performance of both diagnostics and modelling tools for different plasma conditions outlining expectations for ITER based on our present knowledge.

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@article{arxiv.1310.8445,
  title  = {Energetic particle instabilities in fusion plasmas},
  author = {S E Sharapov and B Alper and H L Berk and D N Borba and B N Breizman and C D Challis and I G J Classen and E M Edlund and J Eriksson and A Fasoli and E D Fredrickson and G Y Fu and M Garcia-Munoz and T Gassner and K Ghantous and V Goloborodko and N N Gorelenkov and M P Gryaznevich and S Hacquin and W W Heidbrink and C Hellesen and V G Kiptily and G J Kramer and P Lauber and M K Lilley and M Lisak and F Nabais and R Nazikian and R Nyqvist and M Osakabe and C Perez von Thun and S D Pinches and M Podesta and M Porkolab and K Shinohara and K Schoepf and Y Todo and K Toi and M A Van Zeeland and I Voitsekhovich and R B White and V Yavorskij and ITPA EP TG and JET-EFDA Contributors},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1310.8445},
  year   = {2013}
}

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37 pages, 20 figures