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PHYSICS OF PLASMAS
Volume 15, Issue 7, Pages -Publisher
AIP Publishing
DOI: 10.1063/1.2949692
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- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/D062837/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- Science and Technology Facilities Council [ST/F00205X/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- EPSRC [EP/D062837/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- STFC [ST/F00205X/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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Hot tail runaway electron generation is caused by incomplete thermalization of the electron velocity distribution during rapid plasma cooling. It is an important runaway electron mechanism in tokamak disruptions if the thermal quench phase is sufficiently fast. Analytical estimates of the density of produced runaway electrons are derived for cases of exponential-like temperature decay with a cooling rate lower than the collision frequency. Numerical simulations, aided by the analytical results, are used to compare the strength of the hot tail runaway generation with the Dreicer mechanism for different disruption parameters (cooling rate, post-thermal quench temperature, and electron density) assuming that no losses of runaway electrons occur. It is seen that the hot tail runaway production is going to be the dominant of these two primary runaway mechanisms in ITER [R. Aymar , Plasma Phys. Controlled Fusion 44, 519 (2002)]. (c) 2008 American Institute of Physics.
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