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Major plasma disruptions in tokamaks often generate runaway currents, which contain electrons with energies of several tens of megaelectron-volts (MeV). These currents can cause substantial damage when control is lost and the current hits the limiters or the vessel wall. The interaction between the runaway electrons and the impurities inside the plasma results in soft X-ray emission, which can provide detailed information about the runaway generation process and the confinement of runaway electrons. A vertical soft X-ray array at the top of Joint Texas Experimental Tokamak (J-TEXT) was used to study the runaway beams resulting from major disruptions. Runaway electron production and confinement of runaway current were observed by using soft X-ray images.
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Luo, Y.H., Chen, Z.Y., Zhang, X.Q. et al. Experimental study of the runaway current in the J-TEXT Tokamak. Journal of the Korean Physical Society 64, 405–409 (2014). https://doi.org/10.3938/jkps.64.405
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