Negative Specific Heat of a Magnetically Self-Confined Plasma Torus

Abstract

It is shown that the thermodynamic maximum entropy principle predicts negative specific heat for a stationary magnetically self-confined current-carrying plasma torus. Implications for the magnetic self-confinement of fusion plasma are considered.

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