Strong Isotope Effect in Energy Confinement at the FT-2 Tokamak
- Resource Type
- Authors
- 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; S. V. Shatalin
- Source
- Plasma Physics Reports. 45:1128-1133
- Subject
- 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
- Language
- ISSN
- 1562-6938
1063-780X
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.