Four motional invariants in adiabatic equilibria

• Published in: Вопросы атомной науки и техники
• Date: 2006
• Main Authors: Ågren, O., Moiseenko, V.E.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Національний науковий центр «Харківський фізико-технічний інститут» НАН України 2006
• Subjects: Basic plasma physics
• Online Access: https://nasplib.isofts.kiev.ua/handle/123456789/81790
• Journal Title: Digital Library of Periodicals of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
• Cite this: Four motional invariants in adiabatic equilibria / O. Ågren, V.E. Moiseenko1 // Вопросы атомной науки и техники. — 2006. — № 6. — С. 89-93. — Бібліогр.: 8 назв. — англ.

Recently published derivations of four stationary motional invariants in adiabatic equilibria are presented. The four
 invariants contains a radial drift invariant, which determines the density radial profile and the
 diamagnetic drift, and an additional parallel invariant that determines the plasma current along the magnetic field.
 Thus, there are in general more than three stationary invariants for the adiabatic motion of a gyrating particle. The
 result is valid to first order in the gyro radius, and is applicable to geometries with adiabatic fields, including toroidal
 as well as open trap geometry. In axisymmetric tori, the toroidal invariant can replace the longitudinal invariant in the
 analysis and the radial invariant can be determined from the projected gyro center motion. The four invariants is
 determined for passing as well as trapped particles. For equilibria with sufficiently small banana widths, the radial
 invariant can to lowest order be approximated by the gyro center value of the radial Clebsch coordinate.
 To this lowest order, the gyro centers drift on a magnetic flux surface.