Analytical expressions for the wave permeability tensor are derived for a twodimensional plasma model of a straight axisymmetric mirror trap. The dielectric tensor components are found through a solution of the Vlasov equation, using the theory of Jacobian elliptic functions. The bounce-resonance effect of trapped particles on wave dissipation is analysed. It is shown that collisionless wave dissipation in the plasma with a mirror-trap configuration of a magnetic field can differ essentially from Landau damping in a plasma with straight uniform magnetic field lines. This dielectric tensor can be used in numerical calculations of Alfvén and ion cyclotron heating of mirror-trap plasmas.

In this paper the transverse and longitudinal dielectric tensor elements are evaluated for radio-frequency waves in an axisymmetric tokamak with circular magnetic surfaces, without the smallness assumption of the inverse aspect ratio and poloidal magnetic field. A collisionless plasma model is considered. The Vlasov equation is solved separately for untrapped and trapped particles as a boundary-value problem. The cyclotron and bounce resonances are accounted. The coordinate system with the 'straight' magnetic field lines was used. The separate contributions of untrapped and trapped particles to the dielectric tensor components are expressed by the summation of bounce resonant terms, which include the double integration in velocity space, the resonant denominators, the phase coefficients, the standard elementary and elliptic functions. The permittivity elements presented in the paper are suitable to analyse the spatial structure of the electromagnetic fields and their interaction with charged particles (e.g. during the plasma heating and current drive generation) in the frequency range of Alfvén, fast magnetosonic, ion-cyclotron and lower hybrid waves, for both the low and large aspect ratio tokamaks.

The contributions of untrapped and three groups of trapped particles to the longitudinal permittivity of a tokamak plasma with elliptic magnetic surfaces are derived for radio frequency waves in a wide range of frequencies, mode number, and plasma parameters. The analytical expressions of the longitudinal permittivity elements are obtained by using the kinetic theory of dielectric tensor elements, where the drift kinetic equation is solved as a boundary-value problem. Considered is a collisionless plasma model of an axisymmetric tokamak with small ellipticity and a large aspect ratio. The limit to the known results for toroidal plasmas with the circular cross-section of the magnetic surfaces is shown.

The contributions of trapped and untrapped particles to the longitudinal permeability of a toroidal plasma are analyzed for radio frequency waves in a wide range of frequencies, mode numbers, and plasma parameters. A collisionless plasma model of an axisymmetric tokamak with circular magnetic surfaces and large aspect ratio is considered. The analytical expressions of the longitudinal permeability elements are obtained by using the kinetic theory of dielectric tensor components, where the Vlasov equation is solved as a boundary-value problem. The radial structures of the imaginary part of the longitudinal permeability (for both the untrapped and trapped particles) are studied for parabolic profiles of plasma density, temperature, and tokamak safety factor. The results of the paper are interesting for the problems of Alfvén (and lower-hybrid) resonance heating and current drive by the Čerenkov dissipation mechanism of the waves in toroidal plasmas.

Longitudinal dielectric permittivity elements are derived for radio-frequency waves in an axisymmetric tokamak with elliptic magnetic surfaces, for arbitrary elongation and inverse aspect ratio. A collisionless plasma model is considered. Drift-kinetic equation is solved separately for untrapped (passing or circulating) and three groups of the trapped particles as a boundary-value problem. Bounce resonances are taken into account. A coordinate system with the “straight” magnetic field lines is used. Permittivity elements, evaluated in the paper, are suitable to estimate the wave dissipation by electron Landau damping (e.g., during the plasma heating and current drive generation) in the frequency range of Alfvén, fast magnetosonic, and lower hybrid waves, for both the large and low aspect ratio tokamaks. The dissipated wave power is expressed by the summation of terms including the imaginary parts of both the diagonal and nondiagonal elements of the longitudinal permittivity.