Ideal Internal Kink Modes in a Line - tied Screw Pinch
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Yi-Min Huang, Ellen G. Zweibel, and Carl R. Sovinec Center for Magnetic Self-Organization in Laboratory and Astrophysical Plasmas, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706 Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706 Department of Astronomy, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706 Department of Engineering Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706
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