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December 2012 This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Grant No. DE-FG02-91ER-54109 . Reproduction, translation, publication, use and disposal, in whole or in part, by or for the United States government is permitted. Submitted for publication to Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion (October 2012)

PSFC/JA-12-40

Kinetic Effects on a Tokamak Pedestal Ion Flow, Ion Heat Transport, and Bootstrap Current

Peter J. Catto1, Felix I. Parra1, Grigory Kagan2, Jeff Parker3,

Istvan Pusztai1,4, Matt Landreman1

1) Plasma Science and Fusion Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA 2) Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA 3) Princeton University, Princeton NJ 08544, USA 4) Nuclear Engineering, Applied Physics, Chalmers University of Technology and Euratom-VR Association, SE-41296 Goteborg, Sweden