Equilibrium of non-neutral plasmas with weak axisymmetric magnetic perturbations
- I.N.F.N. Sez. di Milano, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Milan (Italy)
- Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, Novosibirsk (Russian Federation)
- Department of Physics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla (United States)
The effect of weak external axisymmetric magnetic and electrostatic perturbations on the equilibrium of a non-neutral plasma confined in a Malmberg-Penning trap is analyzed. A semi-analytic solution for the potential variations inside the trap is found in a paraxial limit of the perturbations for the case of global thermal equilibrium. The populations of magnetically and electrostatically trapped particles created by the external perturbations are characterized, and their fractions are calculated explicitly for a bi-Maxwellian distribution function. 2D numerical simulations of the thermal equilibrium of a pure electron plasma in the presence of axial magnetic field perturbations are performed to check the limits of validity of the analytical 1D approximation.
- OSTI ID:
- 20891675
- Journal Information:
- AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 862, Issue 1; Conference: Non-neutral plasma physics VI: Workshop on non-neutral plasmas 2006, Aarhus (Denmark), 25-29 Jun 2006; Other Information: DOI: 10.1063/1.2387915; (c) 2006 American Institute of Physics; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0094-243X
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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