Measurement of electron transport in the Madison Symmetric Torus reversed-field pinch (invited)

A recent study investigating the role of electron density fluctuations in p article transport has been conducted on the Madison Symmetric Torus reverse d-field pinch. Four diagnostics enabled this experiment: a high-speed multi chord far-infrared laser interferometer, a multichord H alpha array, a 64-p osition magnetic coil array, and a Doppler spectrometer that measured impur ity ion flow fluctuations. Correlation analysis is used to elucidate the re lationship among density, magnetic, and impurity ion flow fluctuations. We observe that the electron density fluctuations are highly coherent with the magnetic fluctuations resulting from core-resonant resistive tearing modes . Moreover, the fluctuation-induced particle transport, obtained from the c orrelation between electron density and flow fluctuations, indicates that t he core-resonant tearing modes do not drive significant particle transport in the plasma edge. We will address these four primary diagnostics, details of the analysis techniques, and principal results from this study. (C) 200 1 American Institute of Physics.