Published 1989 | Version v1
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Determination of critical velocity and fractions of suprathermal electrons in the implosion of deuterium-tritium pellets by the inertial confinement fusion

  • 1. Area de Ingenieria Nuclear, Escuela Tecnica Superior de Ingenieros Industriales, Univ. de Zaragoza, 500015 Zaragoza (Spain)

Description

In this paper physical processes related to the production of suprathermal electrons by the Inertial Confinement Fusion have been analyzed. The critical velocity suprathermal electrons emerge with, in the implosion of the Deuterium-Tritium pellets, by means of the application of laser, have been calculated. To determinate this critical velocity the authors consider electric fields generated by laser and magnetic fields self-generated by implosion of pellet. Starting on this velocity the authors consider a gegenerate electron's model and having in mind values of the temperature, they have applied statistics of Fermi, Maxwell-Boltzmann and relativistic Maxwell-Boltzmann. Fractions of suprathermal electrons and its concentration to each value of electrons concentration ne, as function of energy, have been calculated. Conditions of applicability have been applied to aforementioned statistics to utilize them in hydrodynamic codes related to inertial Confinement Fusion

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Publishing Information

Publisher
World Scientific Pub. Co.
Imprint Place
Teaneck, NJ (United States)
ISBN
981-02-0010-2
Imprint Title
Emerging nuclear energy system 1989
Imprint Pagination
335 p.
Journal Page Range
p. 166-169.

Conference

Title
5th international conference on emerging nuclear energy systems.
Acronym
ICENES '89
Dates
3-6 Jul 1989.
Place
Karlsruhe (Germany).

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Secondary number(s)
CONF-890711--.