title: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey at New Brunswick, 110 Frelinghuysen Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA. miki@math.rutgers.edu
authors.forename: Michael K-H
authors.initials: MK
authors.lastname: Kiessling
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Neukirch