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American Physical Society, Physical Review Letters, 19(107), 2011

DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.107.195002

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Experimental Observation of Anisotropic Magnetic Turbulence in a Reversed Field Pinch Plasma

Journal article published in 2011 by Y. Ren ORCID, A. F. Almagri, G. Fiksel, S. C. Prager, J. S. Sarff, P. W. Terry
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
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Abstract

In this Letter we report an experimental study of fully developed anisotropic magnetic turbulence in a laboratory plasma. The turbulence has broad (narrow) spectral power in the perpendicular (parallel) direction to the local mean magnetic field extending beyond the ion cyclotron frequency. Its k[see symbol] spectrum is asymmetric in the ion and electron diamagnetic directions. The wave number scaling for the short wavelength fluctuations shows exponential falloff indicative of dissipation. A standing wave structure is found for the turbulence in the minor radial direction of the toroidal plasma.