Long-lived filaments in fusion plasmas: review of observations and status of hypothesis of microdust-assembled skeletons

A. B. Kukushkin, V. A. Rantsev-Kartinov

A brief review is given of the progress in studying the long-lived filaments (LLFs) in fusion plasmas (tokamaks, Z-pinch, plasma focus). The paper reports on (i) resolving the fine…