Radial Structure of Curvature-driven Instabilities in a Hot-electron Plasma PDF Download

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A nonlocal analysis of curvature-driven instabilities for a hot electron ring interacting with a warm background plasma has been made. We have examined four different instability modes characteristic of hot electron plasmas: the high-frequency hot electron interchange (at frequencies larger than the ion cyclotron frequency), the compressional Alfven instability, the interacting background pressure-driven interchange, and the conventional hot electron interchange (at frequencies below the ion cyclotron frequency). We have also examined the decoupling condition between core and hot electron plasmas as it influences the background and hot electron interchange stability requirements. The assumed equilibrium plasma profiles and resulting radial mode structure differ somewhat from those used in previous local analytic estimates; however, when the analysis is calibrated to the appropriate effective radial wavelength of the nonlocal calculation, reasonable agreement is obtained. Comparison with recent experimental measurements indicates that certain of these modes may play a role in establishing operating boundaries for the ELMO Bumpy Torus-Scale (EBT-S) experiment.