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Mirror equilibria for arbitrary mirror ratio and flux-tube eccentricity are obtained to leading order in the plasma pressure (beta expansion) in the paraxial limit (axial scale lengths long compared with radial scale lengths). The solutions are given in terms of quadratures over known functions. The theory is applied to a tandem-mirror configuration.
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Pearlstein et al. (1981) studied this question.
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