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Tokamak Plasmas: A Paradigm for Coronal Equilibrium and Disequilibrium

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Richard D. Petrasso
Richard D. Petrasso*
Affiliation:
Plasma Fusion Center, MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139

Abstract

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Tokamaks operate over a wide parameter space, allowing access to plasma conditions relevant to astrophysical plasmas. For high electron density discharges, for example, the central electron density and temperature are ~ 3 × 1014cm-3 and ~ 1.5 keV, and the central plasma region is in coronal equilibrium. Towards the edge of the plasma, however, many ion species will be far out of coronal equilibrium. A novel feature of the edge region is the seemingly contradictory property that it is, simultaneously, both a strongly recombining and a strongly ionizing plasma. Recent tokamak observations of strongly recombining plasmas also show that the G parameter (the ratio of forbidden plus intercombination to resonance lines) is larger by a factor of 3 than the ratio of statistical weights of the triplet-singlet series. Such observations can be of direct consequence to the interpretation of non-equilibrium astrophysical plasmas.

Type
1. X-rays from a Hot Plasma
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 115: High Resolution X-ray Spectroscopy of Cosmic Plasmas , 1990 , pp. 57 - 62
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1990

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