Particle Dynamics in Magnetic Traps

  • B. V. Chirikov
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Abstract

The investigation of the dynamics of individual (noninteracting) charged particles in a magnetic trap is probably the simplest of the problems of prolonged plasma containment for controlled thermonuclear fusion. Nonetheless, even this “simple” problem is quite rich in content and is far from completely solved, notwithstanding many years’ efforts in this direction (see, e.g., [2–4]). In addition, the dynamics of an individual particle is an integral part of the more complicated problem of collective processes in a plasma. Finally, the problem of containing a single particle in a magnetic trap must be faced every time when a new scheme or a substantial modification of an old method of magnetic confinement of a plasma appears.* An example is Dimov’s ambipolar (tandem mirror) trap [7]. It is one of the so-called open systems of plasma confinement, or traps with “magnetic mirrors,” which will be discussed below. We shall refer to them for brevity simply as traps.

Keywords

Magnetic Trap Stochastic Component Unperturbed System Magnetic Line Nonlinear Resonance 
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