The neutrons emission during the nanosecond discharge in deuterium with inhomogeneous electric field distribution

Author

Lomaev, M.I. ; Sorokin, D.A. ; Tarasenko, V.F. ; Nechaev, B.A. ; Padalko, V.N. ; Yalovets, A.P.

Author_Institution

Lab. of Opt. Radiat., Inst. Of High Current Electron., Tomsk, Russia

fYear

2011

fDate

26-30 June 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

This paper is devoted to the study of neutrons generation in the high-voltage nanosecond discharge under conditions of sharply nonuniform electric field distribution in the interelectrode gap. Stable neutron yield was obtained when a metal plate coated with a layer of deuterated zirconium (cathode) and stainless steel tube (anode), were used as electrodes. It is shown, that at a pressure of the deuterium of several ones torr generation of the neutrons is observed when using deuterium-free cathodes. The influence of anode´s design on the neutrons yield was investigated.

Keywords

anodes; cathodes; deuterium; discharges (electric); neutron sources; plasma applications; plasma sources; D; anode design effects; deuterated zirconium coated metal plate; deuterium free cathodes; deuterium pressure; high voltage nanosecond discharge; inhomogeneous electric field distribution; interelectrode gap; nanosecond deuterium discharge; neutron emission; neutron generation; sharply nonuniform electric field distribution; stable neutron yield; stainless steel tube; Anodes; Cathodes; Detectors; Generators; Neutrons; deuterated cathode; deuteron; high-voltage nanosecond discharge; neutrons generation; nonuniform electric field distribution;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Fusion Engineering (SOFE), 2011 IEEE/NPSS 24th Symposium on

Conference_Location

Chicago, IL

ISSN

1078-8891

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0669-1

Electronic_ISBN

1078-8891

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SOFE.2011.6052307

Filename

6052307