Dipole equilibrium and stability

A plasma confined in a dipole field exhibits unique equilibrium and stability properties. In particular, equilibria exist at all beta values and these equilibria are found to be stable to ballooning modes when they are interchange stable. When a kinetic treatment is performed at low beta, a drift temperature gradient mode is also found which couples to the MHD mode in the vicinity of marginal interchange stability.

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