Plasma Physics
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Plasma Physics
Bohm Sheath Criterion
A fundamental boundary condition stating that positive ions entering a non-neutral plasma sheath must enter with a velocity at or exceeding…
Plasma PhysicsBootstrap Current
A self-generated toroidal electric current in a tokamak plasma driven by trapped particle banana orbits in steep pressure gradients.
Plasma PhysicsBremsstrahlung Radiation in Plasma
Continuous electromagnetic radiation emitted when free plasma electrons undergo deceleration scattering off positive ions.
Plasma PhysicsBurning Plasma & Alpha Heating
The state of a fusion plasma where thermal heating from 3.5 MeV alpha particles produced in Deuterium-Tritium fusion reactions becomes the…