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Phys. Fluids 15, 1063 (1972); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1694031 (7 pages)

Quasilinear Diffusion of an Axisymmetric Toroidal Plasma

Allan N. Kaufman

Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720

(Received 17 November 1971)

In a toroidal plasma with axial symmetry, the three adiabatically invariant actions of a particle are the magnetic moment, the canonical angular momentum, and the toroidal flux enclosed by the drift surface. Resonant interactions between particles and the normal modes of collective oscillation produce mode growth or decay and random changes in the actions. This random walk is represented by a diffusion equation in action space. Both the diffusion tensor and the growth rate depend upon a coupling coefficient which represents the work done by a normal‐mode field eigenfunction on the current density of an unperturbed particle orbit. The diffusion of the plasma causes adiabatic changes in the electric and magnetic self‐consistent fields. Accordingly, energy is not conserved, but is exchanged with external currents.

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