
doi: 10.2172/812019
A new kind of fishbone instability associated with circulating energetic ions is predicted. The considered instability is essentially the energetic particle mode; it is characterized by m/n not equal to 1 (m and n are the poloidal and toroidal mode numbers, respectively). The mode is localized inside the flux surface where the safety factor (q) is q* = m/n, its amplitude being maximum near q*. The instability arises in plasmas with small shear inside the q* surface and q(0) > 1. A possibility to explain recent experimental observations of the m = 2 fishbone oscillations accompanied by strong changes of the neutron emission during tangential neutral-beam injection in the National Spherical Torus Experiment [M. Ono, et al., Nucl. Fusion 40 (2000) 557] is shown.
Oscillations, Tail Ions Beam Plasma Interactions, Shear, Instability, 530, Neutron Emission, Beam Plasma Interactions, Amplitudes, Magnetic Surfaces, Fishbone Instability, 70 Plasma Physics And Fusion Technology, Safety, Kinetic Theory, 74 Atomic And Molecular Physics
Oscillations, Tail Ions Beam Plasma Interactions, Shear, Instability, 530, Neutron Emission, Beam Plasma Interactions, Amplitudes, Magnetic Surfaces, Fishbone Instability, 70 Plasma Physics And Fusion Technology, Safety, Kinetic Theory, 74 Atomic And Molecular Physics
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