Thermal Decay of an Infrared-Laser-Heated Arc Plasma
- 28 August 1972
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 29 (9) , 577-580
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.29.577
Abstract
A small region of a magnetically confined, fully ionized arc plasma of density 2 × and electron temperature of 1.3 to 1.7 eV is heated by 0.7 eV with pulsed C-laser energy. The measured thermal decay is accounted for by classical collisional diffusion along the magnetic field.
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