Equilibrium and stability of collisionless systems in the paraxial limit
- 1 October 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of Plasma Physics
- Vol. 26 (3) , 529-584
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022377800010904
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.Keywords
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