Direct losses of highly energetic trapped particles in torsatrons and heliotrons with a vertically asymmetric helical magnetic-field ripple
Direct losses of highly energetic trapped particles in torsatrons and heliotrons with a vertically asymmetric helical magnetic-field ripple
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具有垂直不对称螺旋磁场波纹的托萨管和日光管中高能捕获粒子的直接损失
DOI:
10.1063/1.873329
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发表时间:
1999
影响因子:
2.2
通讯作者:
M. Smirnova
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作者:
M. Smirnova
Direct losses of highly energetic helically trapped particles, especially of superbananas, are analytically investigated in torsatrons and heliotrons [Uo, J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 16, 1380 (1961)] with a vertically asymmetric helical field ripple. It is found that the vertically asymmetric helical ripple causes an additional net radial drift of suprathermal superbananas, leading to convective losses of these particles from the confinement volume mainly in the vertical direction. For a vertically asymmetric rippled torsatron, a location of the particle loss region in the coordinate space and a dominated direction of the particle escape from the confinement volume is predicted on the basis of the probabilities of the particle trapping/detrapping in/from the helical ripple wells. Analytical predictions are confirmed by numerical computations of direct losses of highly energetic helically trapped particles for a number of torsatrons/heliotrons of today.