New Method of Magnetic Pumping for Plasma Heating

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Abstract
We propose a variant of magnetic pumping heating which makes use of a torsional rather than a compressional magnetic perturbation. It is efficient in large-aspect-ratio toroidal configurations such as Tokomaks. Typically, in this case, it is twice as efficient as the compressional magnetic pumping for magnetic perturbations of the same intensity, while using a working frequency three times smaller.