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High values of magnetic shear provide stability, since the radial extension of helically resonant modes is reduced.
High values of magnetic shear provide stability, since the radial extension of helically resonant modes is reduced.
Negative shear also provides stability.
Negative shear also provides stability.
<ref>[http://link.aip.org/link/?PHPAEN/3/2221/1 T.M. Antonsen, Jr., et al, ''Physical mechanism of enhanced stability from negative shear in tokamaks: Implications for edge transport and the L-H transition'', Phys. Plasmas '''3''', 2221 (1996)]</ref>
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