Profile Study of Shear Stabilization of thenLower Hybrid Drift Instability in thenReverse-Field Screw Pinch

摘要

A criterion due to N. Krall for magnetic shear stabilization of the Lower-Hybrid Drift Instability is applied to model profiles of the Reverse-Field Screw Pinch configuration. Conditions that can virtually eliminate this instability are found nu¬merically, for gentle density profiles. However, shear-stabilization proves to be ineffective for sharper (but still reasonable-looking) profiles. If such profiles have to be lived with, it becomes necessary to rely either on finite-beta stabilization or on the fact that this instability possesses a threshold related to ion gyro-resonance.