The Hydromagnetic Stability of a Toroidal Gas Discharge (Classic Reprint)

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The stability of a toroidal gas discharge is examined by using an energy principle. In the equilibrium configuration the plasma is assumed to be perfectly conducting and to have constant pressure and density. It is found that the pinch can be stabilized under certain very restricted conditions. However, one of the conditions is that the aspect ratio be small so that a long thin torus will always be unstable in the limit.

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