Opening the Magnetic Bottle of a Tokamak Causes Particles to Rush Inward

Credit: Image courtesy of N.C. Logan, et al., Improved Particle Confinement with Resonant Magnetic Perturbations in DIII-D Tokamak H-mode Plasmas. Physical Review Letters 129, 205001 (2022).

The evolution over time of electron density fluctuations and electron density as a magnetic perturbation is applied. After 0.5 seconds of applied perturbation, the fluctuations reduce, and the density increases.

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