Published January 1996 | Version v1
Journal article

Kinetic ballooning mode with negative shear

  • 1. Plasma Physics Laboratory, University of Saskatchewan, 116 Science Place, Saskatoon, S7N 5E2 (CANADA)

Description

Kinetic analysis on the ballooning mode in tokamaks has indicated the existence of a residual ballooning mode in the negative shear region (s<0). The instability has a small threshold in α (the ballooning parameter), requires a finite ion temperature gradient (ηi), and is characterized by a broad eigenfunction φ(θ) extending to θ≅50 in the ballooning space. copyright 1996 The American Physical Society

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review Letters
Journal Volume
76
Journal Issue
4
Journal Page Range
p. 628-631.
ISSN
0031-9007
CODEN
PRLTAO