Excitation of Alfvén Waves by High-Energy Ions in a Tokamak
- 9 June 1975
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 34 (23), 1428-1431
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.34.1428
Abstract
It is shown that shear Alfvén waves can be destabilized by resonance with high-energy "beam" ions near the magnetic axis in a tokamak, if the beam is radially nonuniform.Keywords
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