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Confinement and heating of a deuterium-tritium plasma
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Hawryluk, RJ; Adler, H; Alling, P; Ancher, C; Anderson, H; Anderson, JL; Ashcroft, D; Barnes, Cris W; Barnes, G; Batha, S; Bell, MG; Bell, R; Bitter, M; Blanchard, W; Bretz, NL; Budny, R; Bush, CE; Camp, R; Caorlin, M; Cauffman, S; Chang, Z; Cheng, CZ; Collins, J; Coward, G; Darrow, DS; DeLooper, J; Duong, H; Dudek, L; Durst, R; Efthimion, PC; Ernst, D; Fisher, R; Fonck, RJ; Fredrickson, E; Fromm, N; Fu, GY; Furth, HP; Gentile, C; Gorelenkov, N; Grek, B; Grisham, LR; Hammett, G; Hanson, GR; Heidbrink, W; Herrmann, HW; Hill, KW; Hosea, J; Hsuan, H; Janos, A; Jassby, DL; Jobes, FC; Johnson, DW; Johnson, LC; Kamperschroer, J; Kugel, H; Lam, NT; LaMarche, PH; Loughlin, MJ; LeBlanc, B; Leonard, M; Levinton, FM; Machuzak, J; Mansfield, DK; Martin, A; Mazzucato, E; Majeski, R; Marmar, E; McChesney, J; McCormack, B; McCune, DC; McGuire, KM; McKee, G; Meade, DM; Medley, SS; Mikkelsen, DR; Mueller, D; Murakami, M; Nagy, A; Nazikian, R; Newman, R; Nishitani, T; Norris, M; O’Connor, T; Oldaker, M; Osakabe, M; Owens, DK; Park, H; Park, W; Paul, SF; Pearson, G; Perry, E; Petrov, M; Phillips, CK; Pitcher, S; Ramsey, A; Rasmussen, DA; Redi, MH; Roberts, D; Rogers, J; Rossmassler, R
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Physical Review Letters. 72(22)
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The Tomamak Fusion Test reactor has performed initial high-power experiments with the plasma fueled with nominally equal densities of deuterium and tritium. Compared to pure deuterium plasmas, the energy stored in the electron and ions increased by ∼20%. These increases indicate improvements in confinement associated with the use of tritium and possibly heating of electrons by α particles created by the D-T fusion reactions. © 1994 The American Physical Society.