Nuclear diagnostic for fast alpha particles

Technical Report · Wed Dec 01 00:00:00 EST 1982

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/6568527· OSTI ID:6568527

Grisham, L R; Post, D E; Dawson, J M

We investigate the possibility of seeding a fusion plasma with nuclei which can undergo nuclear reactions with energetic alpha particles to produce product nuclei which are radioactive. If a fraction of these product nuclei can be collected and measured, one can obtain information about the presence of fast alpha particles. It appears that a feasible diagnostic could be based upon the /sup 10/B(..cap alpha..,n)/sup 13/N reaction.

• Research Organization: Princeton Plasma Physics Lab. (PPPL), Princeton, NJ (United States); Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-76CH03073
• OSTI ID: 6568527
• Report Number(s): PPPL-1962; ON: DE83005052
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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