Confinement and Stability of Fast Ions in Fusion Plasmas [Hardcover]

This book explores the outstanding and rather novel diagnostics of the fast ions and fast ion-driven instabilities coupled to modern theory of near-critical nonlinear wave-particle systems with the particle source and wave damping.

Chapter 1: Classical Behavior of Fusion-born Alpha-particles. Chapter 2: Wave-particle Resonant Interaction: Theory Versus Experiment. Chapter 3: Energetic Particle-Driven Modes of Spontaneous Frequency Sweeping. Chapter 4: The Fishbones. Chapter 5: Equilibrium and Alfv?n Eigenmodes in Tokamak Plasma. Chapter 6: Drive, Damping, and Excitation Threshold for Alfv?n Eigenmodes. Chapter 7: Alfv?n Cascade Modes in Reversed Magnetic Shear Equilibria. Chapter 8: Multiple Modes and Global Transport of Energetic Particles. Appendix A: Cubic Equation Derivation. Appendix B: Reduced Model for the Weakly Nonlinear Fishbones. Appendix C: Flux Coordinates for Tokamak Equilibrium. Appendix D: Radiative Damping for TAE. Appendix E: Trapped Electron Collisional Damping for TAE. Appendix F: Wave Energy of TAE in Numerical Assessment of the TAE.               

This book explores the physics of fast ions and fast ion- driven instabilities. It also describes modern theory of near- critical nonlinear wave particle systems with the particle source and wave damping. Such a theory was developed by H.L. Berk and B.N. Breizman in the mid- 1990s, and it delivered outstanding results successfully explaining the experimentally observed collective phenomena driven by energetic ions.

A systematic and step-by-step analysis of resonant interactions between the waves in plasmas and various types of energetic ion populations is presented and analyzed, taking the readers on an exciting journey into the world of nonlinear physics and cutting-edge experiments performed on the worldl³¸