Warm plasma stabilization of drift-cone mode at finite beta
Abstract
The fraction of warm plasma needed to stabilize the drift cyclotron loss-cone mode in a mirror machine is computed. With warm plasma present, a remnant short wavelength instability persists.
- Publication:
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Physics of Fluids
- Pub Date:
- October 1976
- DOI:
- 10.1063/1.861339
- Bibcode:
- 1976PhFl...19.1646B
- Keywords:
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- Magnetic Mirrors;
- Magnetohydrodynamic Stability;
- Plasma Control;
- Plasma Temperature;
- Reactor Technology;
- Cones;
- Controlled Fusion;
- Modal Response;
- Plasma Density;
- Velocity Distribution;
- Wave Dispersion;
- Plasma Physics