Instability of Fusing Plasmas and Spin-Depolarization Processes
- 5 September 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 51 (10) , 892-895
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.51.892
Abstract
A plasma mode driven by the anisotropy of the velocity distribution of charged fusion-reaction products can resonate with the spin precession frequency of one of the plasma components. When these spins are initially polarized, resonant depolarization can occur at a rate considerably faster than the fusion reaction rate, if spatial inhomogeneity effects do not depress excessively the mode amplitude.Keywords
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