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Non-thermal fusion burning processes, relevant collective modes and gained perspectives

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: New tridimensional plasma structures, that are oscillatory and classified as non-separable ballooning modes, can emerge in inhomogeneous plasmas and undergo resonant mode-particle interactions, e.g. with a minority population, that can lead them to modify their spatial profiles. Thus, unlike the case of previously known ballooning modes their amplitudes are not separable functions of time and space. The relevant resonance conditions are intrinsically different from those of the well-known Landau conditions for (ordinary) plasma waves: they involve the mode geometry and affect different regions of the distribution in momentum space at different positions in configuration space. A process for a transfer of energy among different particle populations is envisioned.

Source: Nuclear Fusion

DOI: 10.1088/1741-4326/ad7da2

Authors: B. Coppi, B. Basu

Institutions: National Research Council, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Language: English

Topic: Magnetic confinement fusion research

Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics

Field: Physics and Astronomy

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $2,470

Funders: Kavli Foundation, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche