Collisional avalanche exponentiation of run-away electrons in electrified plasmas [electronic resource].
- Published:
- Washington, D.C. : United States. Dept. of Energy, 1992.
Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy. - Physical Description:
- 15 pages : digital, PDF file
- Additional Creators:
- Princeton University, United States. Department of Energy, and United States. Department of Energy. Office of Scientific and Technical Information
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- Restrictions on Access:
- Free-to-read Unrestricted online access
- Summary:
- In contrast to earlier expectations, it is estimated that generation of runaway electrons from close collisions of existing runaways with cold plasma electrons can be significant even for small electric fields, whenever runaways can gain energies of about 20 MeV or more. In that case, the runaway population will grow exponentially with the energy spectrum showing an exponential decrease towards higher energies.Energy gains of the required magnitude may occur in large Tokamak devices as well as in cosmic-ray generation.
- Report Numbers:
- E 1.99:pppl--2849
pppl--2849 - Subject(s):
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- Note:
- Published through SciTech Connect.
07/01/1992.
"pppl--2849"
"DE92018433"
Jayakumar, R.; Zweben, S.J.; Fleischmann, H.H. - Type of Report and Period Covered Note:
- Topical; 07/01/1992 - 07/01/1992
- Funding Information:
- AC02-76CH03073
AC02-76ET53017
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