Anisotropic Z-Pinch Equilibria and Their Stability

• The Chew–Goldberger–Low equations are used to study the effect of pressure anisotropy on Z‐pinches operating in the collisionless regime. The limitations on the form of accessible equilibria are investigated. The effect on the m=0 instability is asessed both by means of the energy principle and by direct solution of the eigenvalue equation for a variety of anisotropicequilibria. The results indicate that in the small Larmor radius limit pressure anisotropy offers a rather slight enhancement of the linear stability of the Z‐pinch.

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