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(EXP2/02) Experimental Tests of Confinement Scale Invariance on JET, DIIID, ASDEX Upgrade and CMOD

(This paper was rapporteured in lecture EX7/2)

J. P. Christiansen, R. Budny⁴, J. G. Cordey, J. C. Fuchs¹, M. Greenwald³, O. Gruber¹, A. Hubbard³, I. Hutchinson³, G. Huysmans, P. Lomas, C. Lowry, T. C. Luce², H. Meister¹, S. de Peña Hempel¹, C. C. Petty², F. Ryter¹, H. Salzmann¹, B. Schunke, J. Schweinzer¹, J. Stober¹, W. Suttrop¹, K. Thomsen, B. Tubbing, S. Wolfe³, Alcator C-MOD Team³, ASDEX Upgrade Team¹, DIII-D Team², JET Team

JET Joint Undertaking, Abingdon, OX14 3EA, UK
¹ Max Planck Institut für Plasmaphysik, D-85740 Garching, Germany
² General Atomics, San Diego, CA 92186-5608, USA
³ MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, Cambridge, MA, USA
⁴ Princeton University, PPPL, P.O. Box, 451, Princeton, NJ08543, U.S.A.

Abstract.  An international collaboration between JET, DIIID, AUG and CMOD has resulted in four sets of Tokamak discharges which are approximately identical as regards a set of dimensionless plasma variables. The data demonstrates some measure of scale invariance of local and global confinement but a more accurate matching of scaled density, power etc. is required to make firmer conclusions.

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