Abstract
An excitation of flute-type negative-energy ion-cyclotron waves by means of an ion gradient-β drift is analyzed on the basis of the linearized local dispersion relation. The excitation mechanism of these negative-energy waves is found to be a kind of an ion-cyclotron damping. This instability occurs even in axially homogeneous plasmas, and is still not stabilized even at a radial scale length large enough to stabilize the DCLC (drift-cyclotron loss-cone) instability. This instability is stabilized in the same way as the DCLC instability by an addition of a warm plasma.
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