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Equilibrium and stability of collisionless systems in the paraxial limit

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2009

William A. Newcomb
William A. Newcomb
Affiliation:
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, University of California, Livermore, California 94550, and Department of Applied Science, University of California, Davis, California 95616
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Abstract

A study is made of the equilibrium and stability of a magnetically confined collisionless plasma in the paraxial or ‘long, thin’ limit. The main field is poloidalaxisymmetric, and a stabilizing quadrupole field is superimposed.

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Research Article
Information
Journal of Plasma Physics , Volume 26 , Issue 3 , December 1981 , pp. 529 - 584
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1981

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