Published August 1991 | Version v1
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m=0 Z-Pinch stability reconsidered

  • 1. Royal Inst. of Tech., Stockholm (Sweden). Dept. of Fusion Plasma Physics
  • 2. Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College, London (United Kingdom)

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The m=0 linear stability of the collisionless, small Larmor radius Z-pinch is examined. By using a generalized form of the energy principle it is shown that a finite pressure external gas can stabilize the pinch. Equilibrium skin currents are always destabilizing. Our results clarify why the gas-embedded pinch and Extrap are m=0 stable, whereas the fibre and compressional pinches are not

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16 p.
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TRITA-ALF--91-02