title: Transport processes in reversed-field-pinch plasmas: inconsistency with the self-organized-criticality paradigm.
abstract: A statistical analysis of the anomalous particle flux in the edge region of the RFX experiment has revealed that laminar times between bursts, which account for more than 50% of the losses, have a power law distribution and that flux fluctuations are not self-similar. These properties are found in contrast with a wide class of self-organized-criticality models so that it is concluded that there is no experimental evidence of avalanchelike process occurrence in the plasma of RFX.
authors.affiliation: Consorzio RFX, Associazione EURATOM-ENEA per la fusione, corso Stati Uniti 4, 35127 Padova, Italy.
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