Interchange and Infernal Fishbone Modes in Plasmas with Tangentially Injected Beams
New energetic particle mode instabilities of fishbone type are predicted. The considered instabilities are driven by the 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 interchange-like spatial structure, whereas the structure of instabilities with m/n > 1 is similar to that of the infernal MHD mode (except for the region in vicinity of the local Alfvén resonance).
- Research Organization:
- Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), Princeton, NJ
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE - Office of Science (SC)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-76CH03073
- OSTI ID:
- 934616
- Report Number(s):
- PPPL-4139
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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