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It is shown that shear Alfvén waves can be destabilized by resonance with high-energy "beam" ions near the magnetic axis in a tokamak, if the beam is radially nonuniform.Received 31 December 1974DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.34.1428©1975 American Physical Society
Rosenbluth et al. (Mon,) studied this question.