Striking the right note on a magnetic violin
Washington DC (SPX) Nov 11, 2015 - The swirling plasma in donut-shaped fusion facilities called tokamaks are subject to intense heat bursts that can damage the vessel's walls. Halting or mitigating these bursts, called Edge Localized Modes (ELMs), is a key goal of fusion research. While physicists have long known that they could suppress ELMs by pushing and pulling on the plasma with magnetic fields, they frequently found t ... more
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