Current and neutron scaling for megajoule plasma focus machines

S Lee - Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
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In a 2007 paper Nukulin and Polukhin surmised from electrodynamical considerations that,
for megajoule dense plasma focus devices, focus currents and neutron yield Y n saturate as
the capacitor energy E 0 is increased by increasing the capacitance C 0. In contrast, our
numerical experiments show no saturation; both pinch currents and Y n continue to rise with
C 0 although at a slower rate than at lower energies. The difference in results is explained.
The Nukulin and Polukhin assumption that the tube inductance and length are proportional …
Abstract
In a 2007 paper Nukulin and Polukhin surmised from electrodynamical considerations that, for megajoule dense plasma focus devices, focus currents and neutron yield Y n saturate as the capacitor energy E 0 is increased by increasing the capacitance C 0. In contrast, our numerical experiments show no saturation; both pinch currents and Y n continue to rise with C 0 although at a slower rate than at lower energies. The difference in results is explained. The Nukulin and Polukhin assumption that the tube inductance and length are proportional to C 0 is contrary to laboratory as well as numerical experiments. Conditions to achieve Y n of 10 13 in a deuterium plasma focus are found from our numerical experiments, at a storage energy of 3 MJ with a circuit peak current of 7.6 MA and focus pinch current of 2.5 MA.
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