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The role of ion temperature gradient driven drift cyclotron instabilities in both mirror machines and tokamaks is examined. For a completely filled loss cone, reversed temperature and density gradients are necessary for instabilities; however, this inverted profile requirement is relaxed as the fill of the loss cone is decreased and all profiles are unstable for an empty loss cone.
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Catto et al. (1978) studied this question.
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