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Magnetohydrodynamic Activity and Energetic Ions in Fusion Plasmas

Authors: Ya.I. Kolesnichenko, V.V. Lutsenko, V.S. Marchenko, A. Weller, R.B. White, Yu.V. Yakovenko, and K. Yamazaki

Date of PPPL Report: June 2006

Submitted to: Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion

Selected issues of mutual influence of the energetic ions and collective phenomena in toroidal plasmas are considered. This includes peculiarities of energetic-ion-driven Alfvén instabilities in stellarators, fishbone instability and MHD activity during tangential neutral beam injection in tokamaks and spherical tori with the shearless core.