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Two-stream cyclotron radiative instabilities due to the marginally mirror-trapped fraction for fustion alphas in tokamaks

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It is shown here that the marginally mirror-trapped fraction of the newly-born fusion alpha particles in the deuterium-tritium (DT) reaction dominated tokamak plasmas can induce a two-stream cyclotron radiative instability for the fast Alfven waves propagating near the harmonics of the alpha particle cyclotron frequency ωcα. This can explain both the experimentally observed time behavior and the spatially localized origin of the fusion product ion cyclotron emission (ICE) in TFTR at frequencies ω ∼ mωcα

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MF available from INIS under the Report Number; Also available from OSTI as DE95016238; NTIS; US Govt. Printing Office Dep.

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19 p.
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PPPL--3124

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Contract/Grant/Project number
Contract AC02-76CH03073
Funding organization
USDOE, Washington, DC (United States).