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Expulsion of Energetic Ions from the Plasma Core in the Presence of Sawtooth Oscillations in Spherical Tokamaks

Authors: Ya.I. Kolesnichenko, V.V. Lutsenko, R.B. White, and Yu.V. Yakovenko

Date of PPPL Report: August 2000

Presented at: the IAEA Coordinated Research Project "Comparison of Compact Toroid Configuration" at IAEA Headquarters, Vienna, 10-14 July, 2000.

It is shown that high-beta-induced changes in the wave-particle interaction can strongly influence the fast ion transport during sawtooth oscillations.