Suppression of the first flute mode in a long axisymmetric mirror system

Journal Article · Sat May 01 00:00:00 EDT 1982 · Sov. J. Plasma Phys. (Engl. Transl.); (United States)

OSTI ID:6506309

Arsenin, V V

The lowest mode of the flute instability of a plasma with ..beta..<<1 in a confinement system with a simple mirror field: the displacement of the plasma as a whole: can be suppressed if the confinement system is connected with another plasma-filled, axisymmetric, annular confinement system, so that there is a sharp maximum in B beyond the outer boundary of the bell-shaped plasma in the annular system. If the simple mirror is so long that all the other flute modes are stabilized by the finite-Larmor-radius effect, the plasma proves stable with respect to flute perturbations.

• Research Organization: I. V. Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow
• OSTI ID: 6506309
• Journal Information: Sov. J. Plasma Phys. (Engl. Transl.); (United States), Vol. 8:3
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY
MAGNETIC MIRRORS
FLUTE INSTABILITY
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MAGNETIC FLUX
MAGNETIC SURFACES
STABILIZATION
INSTABILITY
MAGNETIC FIELD CONFIGURATIONS
OPEN PLASMA DEVICES
PLASMA INSTABILITY
PLASMA MACROINSTABILITIES
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