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Results are reported from investigating the possibility of using reflectometry to determine the parameters of small-scale turbulence in the core of a tokamak plasma. In particular, the extent to which the reflectometric measurements are local is estimated. Experimental data from reflectometric measurements in the gradient zone, as well as the cross spectra and radial correlation functions, are presented. A turbulence model is constructed that yields spectral, statistical, and correlation turbulent plasma properties close to the measured ones. The model is used to simulate the propagation of electromagnetic radiation in a turbulent plasma.
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Original Russian Text © A.O. Urazbaev, V.A. Vershkov, S.V. Soldatov, D.A. Shelukhin, 2006, published in Fizika Plazmy, 2006, Vol. 32, No. 6, pp. 483–501.
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Urazbaev, A.O., Vershkov, V.A., Soldatov, S.V. et al. Investigation of the possibility of using correlation reflectometry to determine the parameters of small-scale turbulence in the core of a tokamak plasma. Plasma Phys. Rep. 32, 443–460 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063780X06060018
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