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Appendix D: Glossary
Pages 94-95

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... This construction includes collisionless damping due to resonant particle interactions. Gyrokinetic: A reduced description of plasma dynamics obtained by averaging out the fast gyrating motion of particles around field lines.
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... Reversed-field pinch: A magnetic confinement configuration with toroidal symmetry, where the magnetic field in the toroidal direction and that in the transverse field are equally strong and the former reverses direction inside the plasma. Sawtooth: Periodic instability of the core of tokamaks in which a slow increase in the electron temperature is followed by a fast decline.
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  • magnetic confinement
  • confinement configuration
  • magnetic fields
  • field lines
  • field line

  • toroidal direction
  • confining magnetic
  • line reconnection
  • magnetic energy
  • includes collisionless

  • reversed components
  • damping due
  • reconnection experiment
  • equally strong
  • resonant particle

  • usually nested
  • collisionless damping
  • lines lie
  • laboratory experiment
  • experiment located

  • plasma dynamics
  • physics laboratory
  • transverse directions
  • spherical magnetic
  • reverses direction

  • dynamics obtained
  • external coils
  • internal plasma
  • gyrating motion
  • fundamental physics


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