Stabilizing Effect of an Electron Temperature Gradient on Collisionless Drift Instabilities
- 9 July 1973
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 31 (2), 79-82
- https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.31.79
Abstract
The radial electron temperature profile of a hydrogen plasma column is controlled by electron-cyclotron resonance heating. With the use of this technique the stabilizing effect of the electron temperature gradient on collisionless drift instabilities is checked experimentally.Keywords
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