Turbulent Lifetimes in Mirror Machines
- 26 April 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 36 (17), 1051-1054
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.36.1051
Abstract
A quasilinear model is developed describing the time evolution of a mirror-confined plasma which is unstable to the drift-cyclotron loss-cone mode. Good correlation is obtained with experiments with and without an external stream of cold plasma.Keywords
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