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    • References on MHD Stability Issues for Ignitor (from F. Bombarda)

    A good survey of the physics issues for the Ignitor experiment can be found in:

    "Physics Basis for Compact Ignition Experiment"
    B. Coppi, M. Nassi, L.E. Sugiyama, Physica Scripta 45, 112 (1992).

    Since that paper was written, there have been minor changes to the machine design, and to the reference operating scenarios, but the fundamental strategy of the Ignitor experiment, fully described there, is essentially valid. It also contains a session regarding stability issues. Updates on the machine parameters and operating regimes can be found in

    "Optimal Ignition Regimes and the Ignitor Experiment"
    B. Coppi, et al., Nuclear Fusion 41, 1253 (2001).

    Papers dealing more specifically with stability issues for the plasma regimes to be expected in Ignitor are (in chronological order):

    "Global modes and high-energy particles in ignited plasmas"
    B. Coppi, S. Migliuolo, F. Pegoraro, F. Porcelli, Physics of Fluids B 2, 927 (1990).

    "Stability of global modes in advanced plasma confinement configurations"
    A.C. Coppi, B. Coppi, Nuclear Fusion 32, 205 (1992).

    "D-3He burning, second stability region, and the Ignitor Experiment"
    B. Coppi, P. Detragiache, S. Migliuolo, M. Nassi and B. Rogers, Fusion Technology 25, 353 (1994).

    "Evolution of global modes and magnetic reconnection in fusion burning plasmas"
    B. Coppi, S. Migliuolo, L.E. Sugiyama et al., Fusion Energy 1996 Vol. 2, p. 397, IAEA, Vienna, 1997.

    "Safety factor profile shape and the ideal magnetohydrodynamic stability of n=1 internal modes"
    P. Detragiache, Plasma Phys. Contr. Fusion 40, 1501(1998).

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