The DCLC Stabilization Knee: Warm-Plasma Streaming and the Marginal Loss-Cone Microstability of a Deuterium-Helium-3 Tandem-Mirror Plug

The drift-cyclotron loss-cone (DCLC) microstability of a deuterium-helium-3 tandem-mirror plug. A flute-mode electrostatic dispersion solver, cross-checked electromagnetically, maps the exact marginal-stability boundary. The design's warm-ion fill sits exactly on the stabilization knee: it clears DCLC only for sufficiently broad plug-edge gradients, with a weak residual cyclotron mode. Marginal but bounded and quantified; reported honestly.

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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
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2026-08-28
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22132169
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Magnetic confinement fusion research
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The DCLC Stabilization Knee: Warm-Plasma Streaming and the Marginal Loss-Cone Microstability of a Deuterium-Helium-3 Tandem-Mirror Plug

Priyanca Ford, G L Kulcinski
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Magnetic confinement fusion research
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The DCLC Stabilization Knee: Warm-Plasma Streaming and the Marginal Loss-Cone Microstability of a Deuterium-Helium-3 Tandem-Mirror Plug

Priyanca Ford, G L Kulcinski
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Abstract

The drift-cyclotron loss-cone (DCLC) microstability of a deuterium-helium-3 tandem-mirror plug. A flute-mode electrostatic dispersion solver, cross-checked electromagnetically, maps the exact marginal-stability boundary. The design's warm-ion fill sits exactly on the stabilization knee: it clears DCLC only for sufficiently broad plug-edge gradients, with a weak residual cyclotron mode. Marginal but bounded and quantified; reported honestly.

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Fusion for Energy (ES)
Magnetic confinement fusion research
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