Production of Thermonuclear Power by Non-Maxwellian Ions in a Closed Magnetic Field Configuration
- 10 May 1971
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 26 (19) , 1156-1160
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.26.1156
Abstract
A toroidal plasma heated by an energetic neutral beam (thus consisting of an energetic ion component and a lower-energy bulk plasma) can produce net thermonuclear power under conditions far less restrictive than Lawson's criterion.Keywords
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