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A more open future for nuclear research
A growing number of institutional, national, and funder mandates are requiring researchers to make their published work immediately publicly accessible, through either open repositories or open access (OA) publications. In addition, both private and public funders are developing policies, such as those from the Office of Science and Technology Policy and the European Commission, that ask researchers to make publicly available at the time of publication as much of their underlying data and other materials as possible. These, combined with movement in the scientific community toward embracing open science principles (seen, for example, in the dramatic rise of preprint servers like arXiv), demonstrate a need for a different kind of publishing outlet.
Josep Maria Fontdecaba, Francisco Castejón, Rosa Balbín, Daniel López-Bruna, Sergei Yakovlevich Petrov, Ferran Albajar, Guillem Cortés, Javier Dies, Jerónimo García, Jesus Izquierdo, Joan Fontanet
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 46 | Number 2 | September 2004 | Pages 271-278
Technical Papers | Stellarators | doi.org/10.13182/FST04-A565
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Energy-resolved neutral particle fluxes are studied in the TJ-II stellarator by using measurements from a neutral particle analyzer. The average ion energy can be deduced up to positions outside the last closed magnetic surface because of an upgrade of the diagnostic. The results suggest that the average ion energy profile is flat, even at positions outside the last closed magnetic surface, which implies the existence of hot ions well outside the plasma. Such a flat profile may be related to wide ion orbits connecting distant areas of the plasma.
