Astron Kink Stability with a Toroidal Magnetic Field
- 25 December 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 41 (26), 1801-1804
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.41.1801
Abstract
An energy principle, involving a self-adjoint operator, and a sufficient condition for stability are derived for low-frequency kink perturbations of Astron-type particle rings in a dense plasma in the presence of an applied toroidal magnetic field.Keywords
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