Nature Communications (Aug 2018)

Evidence of a turbulent ExB mixing avalanche mechanism of gas breakdown in strongly magnetized systems

  • Min-Gu Yoo,
  • Jeongwon Lee,
  • Young-Gi Kim,
  • Jayhyun Kim,
  • Francesco Maviglia,
  • Adrianus C. C. Sips,
  • Hyun-Tae Kim,
  • Taik Soo Hahm,
  • Yong-Seok Hwang,
  • Hae June Lee,
  • Yong-Su Na

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05839-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Gas breakdown mechanism in plasma under the influence of complex electromagnetic field topology is still debatable. Here the authors present the evidence of the E×B mixing avalanche for gas breakdown in magnetized plasmas in fusion devices as tokamak.