First principles simulation of early stage plasma initiation process in ITER-scale tokamak

A first principles 6D kinetic model is developed to study the earliest times of unassisted plasma breakdown in an International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER)-scale tokamak. This is then used for a comparative study of the predicted ionisation rate and the electron parallel velocity betwe...

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Published in:	Nuclear Fusion
Main Authors:	Junxian Chew, Paul Gibbon, Dirk Brömmel, Tom Wauters, Yuri Gribov, Peter de Vries
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	IOP Publishing 2023-01-01
Subjects:	Monte Carlo simulation plasma tree code tokamak ohmic breakdown Townsend avalanche
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1088/1741-4326/ad0796

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