Published July 30, 1973 | Version v1
Journal article

Effect of the trapped-particle instability on toroidal plasma confinement

Creators

  • 1. Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, 08540

Description

A stability condition is derived for the trapped-electron instability which is valid in both the collisional and collisionless regimes. This instability arises from wave-particle interaction between the perpendicular phase velocity of the waves and the gradient-$B$ drift velocity of the electrons. The stability condition is applied to the FM-1 spherator and ST and PLT tokamaks.

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Augmented title (English)
Major radius, FM-1 spherator and ST and PLT tokamaks

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review Letters
Journal Volume
31
Journal Issue
5
Series
Phys. Rev. Lett.
Journal Page Range
289-292
ISSN
0031-9007

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