Spinning Plasma Ring Stable to Tilting Mode

Copyright (c) 1980 The Japan Society of Applied Physics
, , Citation Akihiro Mohri 1980 Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 19 L686 DOI 10.1143/JJAP.19.L686

1347-4065/19/11/L686

Abstract

The tilting instability of a current-carrying plasma ring bedded in an external magnetic field for equilibrium can be stabilized by spinning the ring about its major axis at an angular velocity above a critical value. This value is estimated using a rigid rotor model.

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10.1143/JJAP.19.L686