Further details on the plasma E × B staircase

Guilhem Dif-Pradalier (1) , G Hornung , Philippe Ghendrih (1) , Yanick Sarazin (1) , F Clairet (1) , L Vermare (2) , P H Diamond , J Abiteboul , T Cartier-Michaud (1) , C Ehrlacher (1) , D Esteve (1) , Xavier Garbet (1) , Virginie Grandgirard (1) , Özgür D. Gürcan (2) , P Hennequin (2) , A Kosuga , Guillaume Latu (1) , Pierre Morel (2) , C Norscini (1) , R Sabot (1) , A. Storelli

1 IRFM - Institut de Recherche sur la Fusion par confinement Magnétique
2 LPP - Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas

Turbulence in hot magnetised plasmas spontaneously has been shown to spontaneously organise on global scales into the so-called " E × B staircase ". Further characterisation of this structure is detailed below.

Domaines: Science non linéaire [physics]; Physique des plasmas [physics.plasm-ph]

Guilhem Dif-Pradalier, G Hornung, Philippe Ghendrih, Yanick Sarazin, F Clairet, et al.. Further details on the plasma E × B staircase. 7th IAEA Technical Meeting on "Theory of Plasmas Instabilities", Frascati, Italy, Mar 2015, France. 2015. ⟨cea-01468382⟩