Published March 1983 | Version v1
Journal article

Electromagnetic theory of curvature-driven trapped-electron instabilities

  • 1. Institute for Electromagnetic Field Theory, Chalmers University of Technology, S-41296 Goeteborg, Sweden

Description

An analytical theory of the curvature-driven trapped-electron instability including effects of finite #betta#, toroidal coupling, and realistic aspect ratio is presented. The mode number of the purely growing mode is modified by the effect of finite #betta# and inverse aspect ratio, but the ''ubiquitous'' mode still remains. A destabilizing effect of finite #betta# for small Larmor radius is obtained

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Phys. Rev., A
Journal Volume
27
Journal Issue
3
Series
Phys. Rev., A.
Journal Page Range
1556-1563
ISSN
0556-2791