Abstract
The motion of charged particles in a cylindrical magnetic field is analysed by a perturbation-theoretic method in which the cylindrical field is treated as a perturbation of a uniform field, and is found to contain axial drift terms. These terms are evaluated to second order and used to formulate the conditions for a self-confining effect, such as would be required for plasma-containment in a thermonuclear reactor.
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