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Interchange and infernal fishbone modes in plasmas with tangentially injected beams

Journal Article · · Physics of Plasmas
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2198207· OSTI ID:20783063
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  1. Institute for Nuclear Research, Prospect Nauky 47, Kyiv, 03680 (Ukraine)
New energetic particle mode instabilities of fishbone type are predicted. The considered instabilities are driven by circulating energetic ions. They can arise in plasmas of tokamaks and spherical tori with weak magnetic shear in the wide core region and strong shear at the periphery, provided that the central safety factor is close to the ratio m/n, where m and n are the poloidal mode number and toroidal mode number, respectively. The instability with m=n=1 has a mainly interchange-like radial structure, whereas the radial structure of instabilities with m/n>1 is mainly similar to that of the infernal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) mode; the differences between the fishbone mode structures and MHD mode structures are considerable only in the vicinity of the local Alfven resonance.
OSTI ID:
20783063
Journal Information:
Physics of Plasmas, Journal Name: Physics of Plasmas Journal Issue: 5 Vol. 13; ISSN PHPAEN; ISSN 1070-664X
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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