Document Type
Article
Publication Date
3-1-1990
Journal Title
Physical Review Letters
Volume Number
64
Issue Number
11
First Page
1258
Last Page
1261
DOI
10.1103/PhysRevLett.64.1258
Version
Publisher PDF: the final published version of the article, with professional formatting and typesetting
Disciplines
Physics
Abstract
Fast-wave and slow-wave current drive near the mean gyrofrequency were compared in the Irvine Torus. The slow-wave current drive density limit observation was extended by an order of magnitude in wave frequency compared to previous tokamak results. At low densities, the fast-wave antenna was observed to launch slow waves which drove currents that suffered from the current drive density limit identical to waves launched from the slow-wave antenna. At higher densities, current was driven by the fast-wave antenna while none was driven by the slow-wave antenna.
Digital USD Citation
Sheehan, D. P.; McWilliams, R.; Wolf, N. S.; and Edrich, D., "Fast-wave Current Drive above the Slow-Wave Density Limit" (1990). Physics and Biophysics: Faculty Scholarship. 7.
https://digital.sandiego.edu/phys-faculty/7