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L-mode

Low-confinement mode, a state of magnetically confined plasma characterized by a short confinement time, a gradual decrease in density and temperature towards the edges of the plasma, and turbulence at the plasma edge. It was so named only after the discovery of the H-mode with much better confinement parameters.