Electron density perturbations produced by sawtooth oscillations in the interior of the Texas Experimental Tokamak are measured with a high-resolution, multichannel, far-infrared interferometer. Abel inversion over the sawtooth perturbation indicates a space-time evolution which is diffusive in character. The diffusion coefficient is determined from a density-pulse-propagation model and found to be appreciably larger than equilibrium values.
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