Kinetic resonance damping rate of the toroidal ion temperature gradient mode

Abstract
The linear damping rates of the toroidal ion temperature gradient (ηi) mode due to the toroidal resonance are calculated in the local kinetic limit. The well-known Landau contour method is generalized to treat the analytic continuation problem of the guiding center dispersion function in the toroidal resonance system where the resonance occurs from both the magnetic ∇B-curvature drift and the parallel ion transit drift. A detailed numerical analysis is presented for the dependence of the damping rate of the toroidal ηi mode on various parameters such as εn, ky, and the trapped electron fraction. In addition, a consideration is presented on the decay problem of the ballistic response by phase mixing in the toroidal system, which is directly related to the kinetic damping problem of the normal modes by the toroidal resonance.

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