An Experimental Study of the Feasibility of Inertially Confining Energetic Electrons and Ions by Electrostatic Means.
Abstract
Experimental studies of the potential and the electron density inside inertial electrostatic plasma confinement devices have been performed using electron beam, microwave and laser diagnostic techniques. A distinctly oscillatory variation of the electron density as a function of radius was found in the cylindrical device for electron and ion injection into a low pressure deuterium gas background. Electron injection into a hard vacuum was found to produce a deep potential well in the spherical device whereas electron injection into a low pressure gas was found to create steady state alternating potential wells. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Feb 01, 1973
- Accession Number
- AD0757228
Entities
People
- Blake E. Cherrington
- Joseph T. Verdeyen
Organizations
- University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign