Onset and saturation of ion heating by odd-parity rotating-magnetic-fields in a field-reversed configuration release_g7ujnwwzpffalibfohk5v4plnu

by A.S. Landsman, S.A. Cohen, A.H. Glasser

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Heating of figure-8 ions by odd-parity rotating magnetic fields (RMF_o) applied to an elongated field-reversed configuration (FRC) is investigated. The largest energy gain occurs at resonances (s ≡ω_R/ ω) of the RMF_o frequency, ω_R, with the figure-8 orbital frequency, ω, and is proportional to s^2 for s-even resonances and to s for s-odd resonances. The threshold for the transition from regular to stochastic orbits explains both the onset and saturation of heating. The FRC magnetic geometry lowers the threshold for heating below that in the tokamak by an order of magnitude.
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