Proposed answers anyone?Related to the above question, wouldn't the ions thermalize after a while of constant collision?
I am looking for actual wording here.
Proposed answers anyone?Related to the above question, wouldn't the ions thermalize after a while of constant collision?
I think you are confused. A thermal plasma does not have a narrow energy range (often confusingly described as a mono energetic range in the Polywell literature). Without using a mathematical formula, I believe a thermal (Maxwell -Boltzman) plasma can be described as having a slued bell shaped curve over a relatively broad range and this broadening increases as the average energy increases. The higher the average energy, the broader the distribution. One of the critical points is that the Polywell operates outside this condition.WizWom wrote:A thermal plasma would be one where the ions are reasonably close in energy.
Each collision will tend to have colliding atoms with energies closer together, rather than farther apart. However, the magnetic cycle will accelerate the ions each time they go on a trip outside the core.
In general, the slower ions will be pulled on a trip outside the core faster.
F= qV x B - so the lower V, the less force the magnetic cage has on the ion.
This is why the cage is NOT at thermal distribution. The fastest ions are also affected most by the magnets.
At least by the descriptions, the Polywell contains electrons magnetically. They are much easier to contain because of their smaller inertia/ momentum and smaller gyro radii at any given KeV.WizWom wrote:Yes, my explanation of a Maxwellian thermal distribution was poor.
It would be impossible for ions not to be affected by the magrid. I believe what you meant is the since the ions are from 1836 to 20300 times the mass of the electrons, they will be much more affected by the coulomb force than the magnetic force.
This is because the "well" of electrons will be on the order of 10^5 V in a working machine, you can see that the coulomb force will be many times the magnetic.
Proposed answers anyone?Related to the above question, wouldn't the ions thermalize after a while of constant collision?
A nice statement, but incomplete and, ultimately, not a description of a polywell.KitemanSA wrote:That is a nice, succinct statement, and I will include it.