Particle Trapping in Magnetic Line Cusps
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- 19 November 1973
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 31 (21) , 1287-1291
Abstract
A computer study of the magnetic line cusp with an internal field shows that a large fraction of the particles in the field-plasma boundary move in definite guiding-center orbits. In the absence of microinstabilities such particles will remain trapped between Coulomb collisions. Since only boundary particles can escape from a "stuffed" line cusp, this result gives an optimistic assessment of line cusps for fusion.Keywords
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