The Alfveacute;n continuum damping of the toroidal Alfveacute;n eigenmodes is explicitly formulated for a large aspect ratio forcehyphen;free tokamak using analytic continuation. A set of jump conditions across the Alfveacute;n singularities are derived which have to be satisfied by the mode amplitudes. The method is then applied to a simple model equilibrium. The characteristics of the modes and their damping are investigated. The method is expected to be generalizable to models with more complete plasma dynamics.
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