The Application of High Current Relativistic Electron Beams in Controlled Thermonuclear Research

摘要

The report of the panel 'rests on a four prong program to apply the physics and technology of relativistic electron beams to the pursuit of controlled fusion. The heating of a plasma to thermonuclear temperatures confined in some form of magnetic trap by beam-plasma inter-actions is discussed in Section II. The subject of plasma heating is divided into two directions for research. The first path is the study of the direct transfer of beam energy to the plasma without recourse to plasma confinement, while the second aims at plasma heating studies in magnetic field geometries which are designed to contain the heated plasma.