Abstract
Trapped particle modes and the associated asymmetry-induced transport are characterized experimentally in cylindrical electron plasmas. Axial variations in the electric or magnetic confinement fields cause the particle trapping, and enable the E×B drift trapped-particle modes. Collisional diffusion across the trapping separatrix causes the modes to damp, and causes bulk radial transport when the confinement fields also have θ asymmetries. The measured asymmetry-induced transport rates are directly proportional to the measured mode damping rates, with simple scalings for all other plasma parameters. Significant transport is observed for even weak trapping fields (δB/B∼10−3), possibly explaining the “anomalous” background transport observed so ubiquitously in single species plasmas.
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