α粒子的慢化过程对D-T等离子体聚变燃烧的影响

在双温聚变燃烧点模型框架下，对比D-T等离子体聚变燃烧过程中α粒子能量逐步沉积与瞬时沉积两种描述的等离子体温度、离子数密度随时间的变化，在不同的密度条件下作了计算，考察了α粒子的慢化过程对D-T聚变点火的影响.发现考虑α粒子的慢化过程后，D-T等离子体峰值温度的出现将会推迟若干皮秒甚至几十皮秒，在较低的初始温度密度条件下，时间推迟得更多些.等离子体的峰值温度比α粒子能量瞬时沉积描述也会下降13keV左右. 关键词： α粒子 聚变燃烧 能量沉积 慢化过程     

高能聚变产物与燃料粒子间的核加库仑相干散射

在具有较高电子温度的D－^3He聚变等离子体中,强子弹性散射、核加库仑相干散射和核反应产物的传播等效尖变得相对重要,而聚变产生的高能离子与电子的库仑相互作用变弱。部分本底燃料离子被聚变产生的高能离子轰击而成为麦克斯韦分布函数尾部的“超热”燃料离子,从而提高了D-^3He聚变反应。     

高能带电粒子库仑对数量子力学效应研究

 先进燃料D-3He聚变产生的高能带电粒子在本底等离子体中慢化时间的准确性直接影响到能量平衡和高能离子压强的计算结果。结果表明：高能带电粒子与本底等离子体的离子相互作用的库仑对数量子力学效应明显。应使用高能带电粒子库仑对数力学效应来研究聚变产生的高能端部粒子慢化过程；能量大于等于25Z²_iZ²_iA_i keV的高能粒子与本底等离子体中离子的相互作用库仑对数最好也使用量子截断。     

库仑对数的量子修正

对D-He^3聚变产生的高能带电粒子，它们在本底等离子体中热化初始阶段的能量损失速率或慢化时间的计算准确性直接影响到能量平衡和快离子压强的计算结果。研究表明，在描述聚变产生的高能尾部粒子初始热化阶段。最好使用较精确的库仑对数lnAi，它们的二体库仑碰撞坦子力学效应不能忽视。     

D-~3He商用堆工作物理参数的空间分析

由于D-~3He聚变堆不要求厚的包层和大的内侧空间,中子壁负载小得多,第一壁几乎是永久性的,维修更换问题减轻。采用低径比有利于电流驱动和较大的等离子体变形和好的垂直稳定性,以便得到大的等离子体电流,因而得到高的β和好的约束。本文从目前普遍采用的堆芯等离子体物理规律为基础,编制了DHE3TOK程序。研究了以D-~3He为燃料,低径比A=2.5工作在第一稳定区的商用堆特点。对它的工作物理参数空间范围进行广泛调查的基础上,提出了需要研究和发展的关键工程技术问题。     

H等离子体处理对Si中He注入空腔引起的效应

室温下分别采用40,160和1550 keV的He离子注入单晶Si样品到相同的剂量5×10¹⁶cm^-2,部分经He注入过的样品然后再分别接受高密度H等离子体处理.利用透射电子显微镜分析比较了随后800°C高温退火引起的空腔形成.结果表明,附加的H等离子体处理对空腔生长所产生的效应明显地依赖于He离子的能量.对于40 keV He离子注入,空腔的形成和热生长似乎不受H等离子体处理的影响,而对于160 keV He离子注入,附加的等离子体处理则促进了空腔的生长并伴随着空腔分布区域的变窄.对于1550keV He离子注入,H等离子体处理对空腔产生的效应介于40和160 keV注入情况之间.结合H等离子体处理在Si中所引起的缺陷的产生及其热演变过程对实验结果进行了讨论.     

用类He离子谱线强度比测量激光产生等离子体电子温度和密度

一、引言在X光激光(XRL)和惯性约束聚变(ICF)研究中,等离子体电子温度和密度是表征等离子体状态的重要参数之一。虽然等离子体辐射各谱线强度与发射源的温度,密度和离子丰度直接相关,但要得到各谱线的绝对强度是很困难的,因为用于测量谱线强度探测器的绝对刻度相当困难。早在70年代初,苏联Aglitskii等首次用类He离子谱线强度比测量等离子体电子温度和密度。由于用该方法测量等离子体电子温度和密度可避免对探测器绝对     

受控核聚变——现代物理学的一个重要前沿领域(之五)

五、如何达到点火温度核聚变研究的重要目标之一是设法把等离子体的温度提高到10keV以上.这是实现聚变点火必不可少的基本条件之一.主要的加热手段包括欧姆加热,高能中性粒子束注入加热,大功率射频波加热,绝热压缩加热和α粒子加热等.1.欧姆加热的原理及其局限性众所周知,等离子体是良导体,但具有一定的电阻,一旦有电流通过,因电阻效应而得到了加热.按照欧姆定律,其加热功率密度表示为:P=ηj~2,式中η是等离子体电阻率,可表示为η=2.8×10~(-8)/T(?)(欧姆米),其中电子温度T_(?)以keV为单位.这个简单表达式是假定采用氢等离子体、其密度为10~(20)m~(-3)情况下代入著名的斯必泽公式得到的.从上式中可知,随着等离子体电子温度的不断升高,其电阻率急剧下降,由此引起欧姆加热的功率密度急剧下降.这说明欧姆加热这种方式有局限性.我们知道,所有托卡马克的等离子体最初都由环向的等离子体电流提供欧姆加热.但经过计算表明,仅依靠欧姆加热,其电子温度至多加热到1.5keV左右.为使等离子体达到10keV以上的聚变点火温度,必须在欧姆加热的基础上采用等离子体辅助加热.目前获得成功并受到广泛重视的辅助加热手段有高能中性粒子束注入法和射频波共振吸收法.     

快重离子束实现点火的可行性

采用蒙特卡罗方法计算了低温下C,Si,Ar,Au和U等多种重粒子在等物质的量氘氚等离子体密度1000 g/cm3、热斑直径50 m中的电子能量损失,不同点火形式下入射能量和作用时间,以及燃料约束时间为20 ps条件下的束流强度。通过对数据的分析研究了这些重粒子辐照实现氘、氚燃料快点火的可能性。结果表明,重粒子束流加热等离子体实现快点火理论上可行,而且有一定的优势;较重的离子加热聚变等离子体的效果更好。重粒子束流加热等离子体到聚变温度需要的束流强度在MA左右;单个粒子的能量在GeV以上;相互作用时间为ps以下。     

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用TSC程序模拟了EAST装置等离子体放电的全过程。模拟中考虑了自举电流，并加入了离子回旋共振加热ICRH和快波电流驱动FWCD，得到了中心电子温度4.5keV、中心离子温度3.8keV、中心电子密度1.2×1020m–3的D形截面的等离子体。根据模拟结果对EAST装置进行了伏秒数分析，并研究了不同等离子体电流上升时间、有效电荷数Zeff对放电的影响。     

Hot Ion Plasma Heating Experiments in SUMMA

Initial empirical results are presented for the hot-ion plasma heating experiments conducted in the new SUMMA (Superconducting Magnetic Mirror Apparatus) at NASA Lewis Research Center. A discharge was formed by applying a radially inward DC electric field near the mirror throats. Data were obtained at midplane magnetic flux densities from 1.0 to 3.5 tesla. Charge-exchange neutral particle energy analyzer data were reduced to ion temperatures using a plasma model that included a Maxwellian energy distribution super-imposed on an azimuthal drift, finite ion orbits, and radial variations in density and electric field. Using this plasma model, the highest ion temperatures computed were 5 keV, 1.2 keV, and 1 keV for He+, H2+, and H+, respectively. These were obtained at a mid-plane magnetic flux density of 1.6 T. Ion temperature was found to scale roughly as (P/B)n, where P/B is the ratio of power input to magnetic flux density and n is about 1 for hydrogen and 2 for helium. Optical spectroscopy line-broadening measurements yielded ion temperatures about 15 percent higher than the charge-exchange neutral particle analyzer results for hydrogen and about 50 percent higher for helium. Spectroscopically obtained electron temperatures ranged from 3 to 30 eV.     

Applicability of strange nonchaotic Wien-bridge oscillators for secure communication

A numerical analysis of ion cyclotron resonance heating scenarios in two species of low ion temperature plasma has been done to elucidate the physics and possibility to achieve H-mode in tokamak plasma. The analysis is done in the steady-state superconducting tokamak, SST-1, using phase-I plasma parameters which is basically L-mode plasma parameters having low ion temperature and magnetic field with the help of the ion cyclotron heating code TORIC combined with ‘steady state Fokker–Planck quasilinear’ (SSFPQL) solver. As a minority species hydrogen has been used in \(^3\hbox {He}\) and \(^4\hbox {He}\) plasmas to make two species \(^3\hbox {He(H)}\) and \(^4\hbox {He(H)}\) plasmas to study the ion cyclotron wave absorption scenarios. The minority heating is predominant in \(^3\hbox {He(H)}\) and \(^4\hbox {He(H)}\) plasmas as minority resonance layers are not shielded by ion–ion resonance and cut-off layers in both cases, and it is better in \(^4\hbox {He(H)}\) plasma due to the smooth penetration of wave through plasma–vacuum surface. In minority concentration up to 15%, it has been observed that minority ion heating is the principal heating mechanism compared to electron heating and heating due to mode conversion phenomena. Numerical analysis with the help of SSFPQL solver shows that the tail of the distribution function of the minority ion is more energetic than that of the majority ion and therefore, more anisotropic. Due to good coupling of the wave and predominance of the minority heating regime, producing energetic ions in the tail region of the distribution function, the \(^4\hbox {He(H)}\) and \(^3\hbox {He(H)}\) plasmas could be studied in-depth to achieve H-mode in two species of low-temperature plasma.     

On the verification of atomic data for <Emphasis Type="Italic">K</Emphasis><Subscript>α</Subscript> radiation spectra from the TEXTOR tokamak

High-resolution spectra from the Ar¹⁶⁺ and Ar¹⁵⁺ ions measured at the TEXTOR tokamak are used to verify atomic data necessary for simulation and diagnostics of a hot coronal plasma with an accuracy of about 5%. A self-consistent approach based on solving the inverse problem by the Bayesian iteration method in the framework of the proposed semiempirical “spectroscopic” model is used. The perturbation calculations of the atomic characteristics for [He] and [Li] argon ions by means of the ATOM and MZ codes require 10% correction of the ratios of the effective excitation rates for the intercombination line of the [He] ion and the group of dielectronic satellites corresponding to the 1s2p3l — 1s ²3l′ transitions in the [Li] ion to the resonance line of the [He] ion. The spectra calculated with this correction are in agreement with the measured spectra within the measurement accuracy ?10% in the wide ranges ～0.8–2.5 keV and ～10¹³–10¹⁴ cm^?3 of the central electron temperature and density, respectively. It is found that the central temperature value can be determined in the framework of the spectroscopic model with an accuracy of ～5%, and the abundances of the [Li] and [II] argon ions with respect to the [He] ions can be determined with an accuracy of ～20 and 50%, respectively. It has been shown that the use of the isothermal approximation when measuring the temperature from the ratio of the intensities of the dielectronic satellites to the resonance line can lead to a large error of ～20% in the presence of gradients typical for tokamak plasmas.     

Temperature measurements in plasmas generated by using lasers at different intensities

The temperature of laser-generated pulsed plasmas is an important property that depends on many parameters, such as the particle species and the time elapsed from the laser interaction with the matter and the surface characteristics.

Laser-generated plasmas with low intensity (<10¹⁰ W/cm²) at INFN-LNS of Catania and with high intensity (>10¹⁴ W/cm²) in PALS laboratory in Prague have been investigated in terms of temperatures relative to ions, electrons, and neutral species. Time-of-flight (ToF) measurements have been performed with an electrostatic ion energy analyzer (IEA) and with different Faraday cups, in order to measure the ion and electron average velocities. The IEA was also used to measure the ion energy, the ion charge state, and the ion energy distribution.

The Maxwell–Boltzmann function permitted to fit the experimental data and to extrapolate the ion temperature of the plasma core.

The velocity of the neutrals was measured with a special mass quadrupole spectrometer. The Nd:Yag laser operating at low intensity produced an ion temperature core of the order of 400 eV and a neutral temperature of the order of 100 eV for many ablated materials. The ToF of electrons indicates the presence of hot electron emission with an energy of ～1 keV.     

Theoretical analysis of ion kinetic energies and DLC film deposition by CH4＋ Ar （He） dielectric barrier discharge plasmas

The kinetic energy of ions in dielectric barrier discharge plasmas are analysed theoretically using the model of binary collisions between ions and gas molecules. Langevin equation for ions in other gases, Blanc law for ions in mixed gases, and the two-temperature model for ions at higher reduced field are used to determine the ion mobility. The kinetic energies of ions in CH4 ＋ Ar（He） dielectric barrier discharge plasma at a fixed total gas pressure and various Ar （He） concentrations are calculated. It is found that with increasing Ar （He） concentration in CH4 ＋ Ar （He） from 20% to 83%, the CH4＋ kinetic energy increases from 69.6 （43.9） to 92.1 （128.5）eV, while the Ar＋ （He＋） kinetic energy decreases from 97 （145.2） to 78.8 （75.5）eV. The increase of CH4＋ kinetic energy is responsible for the increase of hardness of diamond-like carbon films deposited by CH4 ＋ Ar （He） dielectric barrier discharge without bias voltage over substrates.     

Nucleus-electron model for states changing from a liquid metal to a plasma and the Saha equation

We extend the quantal hypernetted-chain (QHNC) method, which has been proved to yield accurate results for liquid metals, to treat a partially ionized plasma. In a plasma, the electrons change from a quantum to a classical fluid gradually with increasing temperature; the QHNC method applied to the electron gas is in fact able to provide the electron-electron correlation at an arbitrary temperature. As an illustrating example of this approach, we investigate how liquid rubidium becomes a plasma by increasing the temperature from 0 to 30 eV at a fixed normal ion density 1.03x10(22)/cm(3). The electron-ion radial distribution function (RDF) in liquid Rb has distinct inner-core and outer-core parts. Even at a temperature of 1 eV, this clear distinction remains as a characteristic of a liquid metal. At a temperature of 3 eV, this distinction disappears, and rubidium becomes a plasma with the ionization 1.21. The temperature variations of bound levels in each ion and the average ionization are calculated in Rb plasmas at the same time. Using the density-functional theory, we also derive the Saha equation applicable even to a high-density plasma at low temperatures. The QHNC method provides a procedure to solve this Saha equation with ease by using a recursive formula; the charge population of differently ionized species are obtained in Rb plasmas at several temperatures. In this way, it is shown that, with the atomic number as the only input, the QHNC method produces the average ionization, the electron-ion and ion-ion RDF's, and the charge population that are consistent with the atomic structure of each ion for a partially ionized plasma.     

Compton scattering in ignited thermonuclear plasmas

Inertially confined, ignited thermonuclear D-T plasmas will produce intense blackbody radiation at temperatures T greater, similar20 keV; it is shown that the injection of GeV electrons into the burning core can efficiently generate high-energy Compton scattering photons. Moreover, the spectrum scattered in a small solid angle can be remarkably monochromatic, due to kinematic pileup; a peak brightness in excess of 10;{30} photons/(mm(2) mrad(2) s 0.1% bandwidth) is predicted. These results are discussed within the context of the Schwinger field and the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect.     

Die Energieaufnahme der Ionen in einem sehr schnellen Theta-Pinch

In a theta pinch with an extremely fast rising magnetic field (dB/dt 10¹¹ G/sec), a strong compression wave is produced in an initially fieldless low-density deuterium plasma. Assuming simple plasma models, a high-energy gain of the ions is expected already during the implosion of the plasma. In agreement with these calculations for a filling pressure of 20 μ D₂, a mean ion energy of 1–2 keV is determined from the first neutron emission at the end of the implosion, only 150 nsec after ignition. Decreasing the initial pressure to 10 μ D₂ does not cause any further increase of the achieved ion energy. This limitation of the ion heating is explained by a strong broadening of the current carrying layer at low densities which is observed by magnetic probe measurements. In the adiabatic compression, the mean ion energy attains values of several keV. During the first part of this phase, the energy distribution function of the ions is found to be essentially anisotropic, and monoenergetic rather than Maxwellian.     

Plasma Performance of the Central Cell of a Cat-D Tandem Mirror Reactor

A particle and power balance assessment of the central cell of a conceptual D-D tandem mirror reactor (TMR) is carried out using a two-dimensional (2-D) Fokker-Planck code and a zero-dimensional (0-D) simulation code. The two computational models produce excellent agreement except for the mean triton energy, the difference in which can be attributed to the fact that the 2-D code considers the long slowing-down time of the tritium. It is demonstrated that for an ion confining potential between 200 and 300 keV, a) the central cell of a catalyzed-deuterium (Cat-D) fueled TMR can achieve ignition in the temperature range of 40-60 keV, b) the alpha ash buildup must be strictly controlled to obtain an economical ratio of electrostatic confining potential to central-cell temperature ?/T, allowing the exhaust tritium to beta decay to helium-3 prior to reinjection results in roughly the same net electrical power output, and c) injecting extra tritium beyond that bred in the plasma allows a drop in the minimum ion confining potential required for ignition. It is shown that the ion confining potential is minimized when Tic, = 50 keV; this results in a plasma Q of 26. A quantitative comparison with a D-T reactor scenario is presented. It is shown that under ideal operating conditions, a conceptual Cat-D TMR has a 35-40 percent higher power conversion efficiency than a D-T device; this must be weighed against the higher temperature and plugging requirements of Cat-D.