The stability of the collisional distribution of a mirror machine against the Alfvén cyclotron resonance mode is examined. This instability which is shown to have a growth rate which scales as γ∼ωci exp (−R3/4/β1/4) for Rβ<1 may be dangerous for low beta mirror plasmas as well as high beta plasmas.
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