Fluctuation statistics in the scrape-off layer of Alcator C-Mod

Acknowledgements: RK, OEG and AT were supported with financial subvention from the Research Council of Norway under grant 240510/F20. RK would like to thank D Brunner for providing the script used to create figure 1. Work partially supported by US DoE Cooperative agreement DE-FC02-99ER54512 at MIT using the Alcator C-Mod tokamak, a DoE Office of Science user facility. RK and OEG acknowledge the generous hospitality of the Plasma Science and Fusion Center at MIT during a sabbatical stay during which these experiments were performed.