Parametric excitation of ion-cyclotron waves by a pump magnetic field in a high-temperature plasma

1978 ◽  
Vol 21 (5) ◽  
pp. 835 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. F. Cramer
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Field ◽  
High Temperature ◽  
Parametric Excitation ◽  
Temperature Plasma ◽  
High Temperature Plasma ◽  
Ion Cyclotron Waves ◽  
Ion Cyclotron

scholarly journals The strange physics of low frequency mirror mode turbulence in the high temperature plasma of the magnetosheath

2004 ◽  
Vol 11 (5/6) ◽  
pp. 647-657 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. A. Treumann ◽  
C. H. Jaroschek ◽  
O. D. Constantinescu ◽  
R. Nakamura ◽  
O. A. Pokhotelov ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Field ◽  
High Temperature ◽  
Particle Density ◽  
Convective Transport ◽  
Magnetized Plasma ◽  
Temperature Plasma ◽  
High Temperature Plasma ◽  
Fluid Theory ◽  
Mirror Mode ◽  
The Magnetic Field

Abstract. Mirror mode turbulence is the lowest frequency perpendicular magnetic excitation in magnetized plasma proposed already about half a century ago by Rudakov and Sagdeev (1958) and Chandrasekhar et al. (1958) from fluid theory. Its experimental verification required a relatively long time. It was early recognized that mirror modes for being excited require a transverse pressure (or temperature) anisotropy. In principle mirror modes are some version of slow mode waves. Fluid theory, however, does not give a correct physical picture of the mirror mode. The linear infinitesimally small amplitude physics is described correctly only by including the full kinetic theory and is modified by existing spatial gradients of the plasma parameters which attribute a small finite frequency to the mode. In addition, the mode is propagating only very slowly in plasma such that convective transport is the main cause of flow in it. As the lowest frequency mode it can be expected that mirror modes serve as one of the dominant energy inputs into plasma. This is however true only when the mode grows to large amplitude leaving the linear stage. At such low frequencies, on the other hand, quasilinear theory does not apply as a valid saturation mechanism. Probably the dominant processes are related to the generation of gradients in the plasma which serve as the cause of drift modes thus transferring energy to shorter wavelength propagating waves of higher nonzero frequency. This kind of theory has not yet been developed as it has not yet been understood why mirror modes in spite of their slow growth rate usually are of very large amplitudes indeed of the order of |B/B0|2~O(1). It is thus highly reasonable to assume that mirror modes are instrumental for the development of stationary turbulence in high temperature plasma. Moreover, since the magnetic field in mirror turbulence forms extended though slightly oblique magnetic bottles, low parallel energy particles can be trapped in mirror modes and redistribute energy (cf. for instance, Chisham et al. 1998). Such trapped electrons excite banded whistler wave emission known under the name of lion roars and indicating that the mirror modes contain a trapped particle component while leading to the splitting of particle distributions (see Baumjohann et al., 1999) into trapped and passing particles. The most amazing fact about mirror modes is, however, that they evolve in the practically fully collisionless regime of high temperature plasma where it is on thermodynamic reasons entirely impossible to expel any magnetic field from the plasma. The fact that magnetic fields are indeed locally extracted makes mirror modes similar to "superconducting" structures in matter as known only at extremely low temperatures. Of course, microscopic quantum effects do not play a role in mirror modes. However, it seems that all mirror structures have typical scales of the order of the ion inertial length which implies that mirrors evolve in a regime where the transverse ion and electron motions decouple. In this case the Hall kinetics comes into play. We estimate that in the marginally stationary nonlinear state of the evolution of mirror modes the modes become stretched along the magnetic field with k||=0 and that a small number the order of a few percent of the particle density is responsible only for the screening of the field from the interior of the mirror bubbles.

scholarly journals Superconducting Magnet Producing a Cusp Type Magnetic Field for High Temperature Plasma Trapping

1968 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
pp. 214-220 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tadashi SEKIGUCHI ◽  
Mitsumori TANIMOTO ◽  
Akio KITSUNEZAKI ◽  
Katsuhiro AKASHI ◽  
Masatami IWAMOTO ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Field ◽  
High Temperature ◽  
Superconducting Magnet ◽  
Temperature Plasma ◽  
High Temperature Plasma

A Proposal for Local Magnetic-Field Measurement in High-Temperature Plasma Devices Using a Rapid-Frequency-Scan Laser

1985 ◽  
Vol 24 (Part 2, No. 6) ◽  
pp. L402-L404 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chikahisa Honda ◽  
Mitsuo Maeda ◽  
Takayuki Yamada ◽  
Katsunori Muraoka ◽  
Masanori Akazaki
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Field ◽  
High Temperature ◽  
Field Measurement ◽  
Local Magnetic Field ◽  
Magnetic Field Measurement ◽  
Temperature Plasma ◽  
High Temperature Plasma ◽  
Frequency Scan

The JET project: introduction and background

1987 ◽  
Vol 322 (1563) ◽  
pp. 3-15 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Field ◽  
High Temperature ◽  
Electric Discharge ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Magnetic Confinement ◽  
Thermonuclear Fusion ◽  
Fusion Reactors ◽  
Temperature Plasma ◽  
High Temperature Plasma ◽  
Controlled Thermonuclear Fusion

The Joint European Torus, JET, is an experiment, undertaken by 15 partners from 12 nations of Western Europe, to get information on the magnetic confinement of high-temperature plasma in conditions close to those needed for energy-producing controlled thermonuclear fusion reactors. Physically, JET is a very powerful toroidal-pinch electric discharge in a strong stabilizing magnetic field, a system known as a tokamak. The paper summarizes the main features of a tokamak and relates them to the papers in this symposium.

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