Experiments on negative-feedback stabilization of helical plasma instability in a TO-1 tokamak
Artemenkov L.I., Ivanov N.V., Kakurin A.M., Mukhin P.A., Papkov L.N., Chudnovskii A.N., Shvindt N.N., Gvozdkov Yu.V. , Cherkashin M.Yu.
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