Evidence for Collisionless Damping of Unstable Waves in a Mirror-Confined Plasma
- 9 March 1970
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 24 (10), 495-499
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.24.495
Abstract
Measurements of density thresholds for an ion-cyclotron instability in a mirror-confined plasma are interpreted in terms of a boundary for Landau damping of the unstable waves. Allowing for an observed normal-mode structure, experimental threshold values are accounted for quantitatively.Keywords
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