Stability of Plasma Confined by a Cold-Gas Blanket
Abstract
A steady-state plasma, confined by a cold-gas blanket in a toroidal magnetic field, is stable against magnetohydrodynamic instabilities. A ring whirl will help to define the equilibrium position, to stabilize against deviations from the steady-state, and to allow a poloidal field component.
- Publication:
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Physical Review Letters
- Pub Date:
- August 1966
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.17.470
- Bibcode:
- 1966PhRvL..17..470B