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IOP Publishing, Nuclear Fusion, 8(50), p. 084012, 2010

DOI: 10.1088/0029-5515/50/8/084012

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Anomalous electron transport due to multiple high frequency beam ion driven Alfvén eigenmodes

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Abstract

We report on the simulations of recently observed correlations of the core electron transport with the sub-thermal ion cyclotron frequency instabilities in low aspect ratio plasmas of the National Spherical Torus Experiment. In order to model the electron transport the guiding centre code ORBIT is employed. A spectrum of test functions of multiple core localized global shear Alfvén eigenmode (GAE) instabilities based on a previously developed theory and experimental observations is used to examine the electron transport properties. The simulations exhibit thermal electron transport induced by electron drift orbit stochasticity in the presence of multiple core localized GAE.