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Stability of high beta tokamaks to ballooning modes

Henry R. Strauss, W. Park, Donald A. Monticello, Roscoe B. White, S.C. Jardin, M. S. Chance, A.M.M. Todd, Alan H. Glasser

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Ballooning modes are found to possess a second stable regime for high beta. The range of unstable beta values depends on the details of the equilibrium, and in particular, on shear, which can be strongly stabilizing.

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Ballooning modes are found to possess a second stable regime for high beta. The range of unstable beta values depends on the details of the equilibrium, and in particular, on shear, which can be strongly stabilizing.

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Ballooning modes are found to possess a second stable regime for high beta. The range of unstable beta values depends on the details of the equilibrium, and in particular, on shear, which can be strongly stabilizing.

Key concepts: Ballooning, BETA (programming language), Tokamak, Physics, Stability (learning theory), Shear (geology), Instability, Mechanics

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