Energetic geodesic acoustic modes associated with two-stream like instabilities in tokamak plasmas

Energetic geodesic acoustic modes associated with two-stream like instabilities in tokamak plasmas

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Energetic geodesic acoustic modes associated with two-stream like instabilities in tokamak plasmas

An unstable branch of energetic geodesic acoustic mode (EGAM) is found using the fluid theory with fast ions characterised by their narrow width in energy distribution and collective transit along field lines. This mode, with a frequency much lower than the thermal GAM frequency !GAM, is now confirmed as a new type of unstable EGAM : a reactive instability similar to the two-stream instability. The mode can have very small fast ion density threshold when the fast ion transit frequency is smaller than !GAM, consistent with the on-set of the mode right after the turn-on of the beam in DIII-D experiments. The transition of this reactive EGAM to the velocity gradient driven EGAM is also discussed.

Collection:
Journals
Journal:
Physical Review Letters
Publisher:
APS
Published date:
03/01/2016