Axis encircling ion gyroinstability
- 1 April 1980
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Physics of Fluids
- Vol. 23 (4) , 764-770
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.863057
Abstract
An idealized plasma model in which all the ion guiding centers lie along the magnetic axis of a cylindrically symmetric plasma is investigated. The radial eigenvalue equation is derived and solved for this strongly unstable limit. Many of the physical features predicted by simple analytic limits of the WKB phase integral condition are verified by a comparison with the results of a particle simulation.Keywords
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