ATTACK ON PLASMA, TEMPERATURE OF 100 MILLION DEGREES,
Abstract
Experimental installations concerning the physics of plasma are reported to have been built by scientists of the Siberian Institute of Nuclear Physics. R. Sagdeyev obtained plasma by passing shock waves at 1000-km/sec velocity so that plasma was heated to 100 million degrees and retained for so long as several hundred thousands of fractions of a microsecond. Yu. Nesterikhin and his associates measured the temperature of plasma by using an optical interferometer. B. Chirikov and V. Volosov are searching for ways to control thermonuclear reactions; such control might be attained by having plasmas with electrons travelling at a velocity almost equaling the speed of light. The investigators F. Tsel'nik, V. Pal'chikov and B. Chirkov used ultrahigh vacuum for overcoming instability of plasma. The magnetic trap 'IN' was intended to carry out experiments with relatively slow electrons at a velocity of 150,000 km/sec and temperature down to one billion degrees.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- May 11, 1965
- Accession Number
- AD0615535
Entities
People
- V. Davydchenkov
Organizations
- National Air and Space Intelligence Center