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The antenna structure in the TCA tokamak is phased to excite preferentially Alfv\'en waves with known toroidal and poloidal wave numbers. Surprisingly, the loading spectrum includes both discrete and continuum modes with poloidal wave numbers incompatible with the antenna phasing. These additional modes, which are important for our heating experiments, can be attributed to linear mode coupling induced by the toroidicity of the plasma column, when we take into account ion-cyclotron effects.
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