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Transport barriers with magnetic shear in a tokamak

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2007

M. EL MOUDEN ,
D. SAIFAOUI ,
A. DEZAIRI ,
B. ZINE  and
M. EDDAHBY
M. EL MOUDEN
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Theoretical Physics, Faculty of Sciences, Ain Chock, Casablanca, Morocco (m_elmouden@walla.com)
D. SAIFAOUI
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Theoretical Physics, Faculty of Sciences, Ain Chock, Casablanca, Morocco (m_elmouden@walla.com)
A. DEZAIRI
Affiliation:
Laboratory of the Physics of Condensed Matter, Faculty of Sciences, Ben M'sik, Casablanca, Morocco
B. ZINE
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Theoretical Physics, Faculty of Sciences, Ain Chock, Casablanca, Morocco (m_elmouden@walla.com)
M. EDDAHBY
Affiliation:
Laboratory of the Physics of Condensed Matter, Faculty of Sciences, Ben M'sik, Casablanca, Morocco
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Abstract

The reversed magnetic shear is the most important factor in the study of the plasmas of a tokamak. In this paper we focus our research, as a first stage, on the control of the improved confinement regimes by studying the influence of the reversed shear on its quality in the plasma of a tokamak and especially in reducing the anomalous transport in ITER. Then we study the influence of the perturbation modes on the particle diffusion. At the end, a comparison between simulation results obtained using ITER and TEXT parameters is carried out.

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Journal of Plasma Physics , Volume 73 , Issue 4 , August 2007 , pp. 439 - 453
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2006

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