Abstract
The poloidal electric field generated by electron heating in a collision dominated tokamak plasma is calculated by the adjoint method. The physical mechanism is elucidated as due to a combination of the Doppler shifted cyclotron resonance and magnetic field inhomogeneity. For uniform rf field on a flux surface, the normalized electrostatic potential is found to be much smaller than the inverse aspect ratio for realistic power levels.
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