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In experiments on the generation and electron cyclotron resonance heating (ECRH) of plasma in the L-2M stellarator, non-Maxwellian two-slope soft X-ray (SXR) spectra were observed. The temperatures of the thermal and epithermal components of the spectra were measured as functions of the heating power and plasma density. A hypothesis based on the experimental results is suggested to explain the formation mechanism of two-slope SXR spectra in the ECRH experiments at the L-2M stellarator. The measured SXR spectra are compared with the results of numerical simulations.
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Original Russian Text © A.I. Meshcheryakov, I.Yu. Vafin, I.A. Grishina, A.A. Letunov, M.A. Tereshchenko, 2017, published in Fizika Plazmy, 2017, Vol. 43, No. 6, pp. 497–502.
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Meshcheryakov, A.I., Vafin, I.Y., Grishina, I.A. et al. Two-slope soft X-ray spectra observed in experiments on electron cyclotron resonance plasma heating in the L-2M stellarator. Plasma Phys. Rep. 43, 599–604 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063780X17060113
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