Production and Observation of the Dissipative Trapped-Ion Instability
- 12 October 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 47 (15) , 1057-1060
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.47.1057
Abstract
A new, steady-state linear mirror machine has been constructed which produces a low-density, low-temperature hydrogen plasma in the collisionality regime of the dissipative trapped-ion instability. This instability was seen and identified through the observed dependence of wave amplitude on trapped fraction, axial and radial position, and collisionality and through the scaling of real frequency with trapped fraction.Keywords
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