A study is made of the equilibrium and stability of a magnetically confined collisionless plasma in the paraxial or ‘long, thin’ limit. The main field is poloidalaxisymmetric, and a stabilizing quadrupole field is superimposed.
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William A. Newcomb (1981) studied this question.
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