The stability of a tokamak plasma to ideal and resistive internal kink modes in the presence of an energetic trapped‐particle population is analyzed. Domains of stability are found for both slowing‐down and Maxwellian particle distributions. The stable domains are at moderately high plasma beta and involve a significant, but easily obtainable high‐energy trapped‐particle density.
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