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Convectively stable pressure profile in magnetic confinement systems with internal rings

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A convectively stable pressure profile in a long multiple-mirror (corrugated) magnetic confinement system with internal current-carrying rings is calculated. The plasma energy content in the axial region can be increased by using an internal ring that reverses the on-axis magnetic field direction and gives rise to an average magnetic well near the axis. The pressure profile in the outer region—outside the magnetic well—is considered in detail. It is shown that, in the radial pressure profile, a pedestal can be formed that leads to a higher pressure drop between the center and the plasma edge. The pressure profile is calculated from the Kruskal-Oberman criterion—a necessary and sufficient condition for the convective stability of a collisionless plasma. The revealed pedestal arises near the boundary of the average magnetic well in the region of the smallest but alternating-sign curvature of the magnetic field lines due to a break in the convectively stable pressure profile. Such a shape of the stable pressure profile can be attributed to the stabilizing effect of the alternating-sign curvature of the field lines in the multiple-mirror magnetic confinement systems under consideration.

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Original Russian Text © M.M. Tsventoukh, 2010, published in Fizika Plazmy, 2010, Vol. 36, No. 6, pp. 499–509.

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Tsventoukh, M.M. Convectively stable pressure profile in magnetic confinement systems with internal rings. Plasma Phys. Rep. 36, 462–472 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063780X10060036

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