with a “shoulder”-like equilibrium current is investigated. It is found that energetic particle
branch of the mode is unstable with the driving of fast-particle precession drifts and
corresponds to a precessional fishbone. The mode with a low stability threshold is also more
easily excited than the conventional precessional fishbone. This is different from earlier
studies for the same equilibrium in which the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) branch of the …