S Lee et al 2008 Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion 50 065012 doi:10.1088/0741-3335/50/6/065012
S Lee1,2,3, P Lee2, S H Saw3 and R S Rawat2
Show affiliationsContrary to the general expectation that performance of a plasma focus would progressively improve with progressive reduction of its static inductance Lo, a recent paper suggests that there is in fact an optimum Lo below which although the peak total current increases progressively the pinch current and consequently the neutron yield of that plasma focus would not increase, but instead decreases. This paper describes the numerical experiments and results that led to this conclusion.
Issue 6 (June 2008)
Received 18 February 2008
Published 11 April 2008
S Lee et al 2008 Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion 50 065012
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