Spatiotemporal Evolution of Runaway Electron Momentum Distributions in Tokamaks

Novel spatial, temporal, and energetically resolved measurements of bremsstrahlung hard-x-ray (HXR) emission from runaway electron (RE) populations in tokamaks reveal nonmonotonic RE distribution functions whose properties depend on the interplay of electric field acceleration with collisional and s...

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Main Authors: Paz-Soldan, C., Cooper, C. M., Aleynikov, P., Pace, D. C., Eidietis, N. W., Brennan, D. P., Hollmann, E. M., Liu, C., Lvovskiy, A., Moyer, R. A., Shiraki, D., Granetz, Robert S
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Plasma Science and Fusion Center
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/110251