Thermal Instability of Thermonuclear Plasma in a Mirror Field

Nobuo Mizuno

doi:dx.doi.org/10.13182/FST90-A29281

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Home / Publications / Journals / Fusion Science and Technology / Volume 18 / Number 3

Thermal Instability of Thermonuclear Plasma in a Mirror Field

Nobuo Mizuno

Fusion Science and Technology / Volume 18 / Number 3 / November 1990 / Pages 455-460

Alpha Particles in Fusion Research / Technical Paper / dx.doi.org/10.13182/FST90-A29281

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The thermal stability of a thermonuclear plasma in a mirror reactor is obtained by a simple model The effect of the loss of thermonuclear alpha particles due to collisional pitch-angle scattering into loss cones is included in this analysis. The effect of the collisional loss is significant, and it has a stabilizing effect on the thermal instability.