Bremsstrahlung energy loss of degenerate plasma
Abstract
The integrated emission coefficient for Bremsstrahlung is derived for a plasma with an arbitrary electron degeneracy. This coefficient is shown to have two plausible limiting values of classical and fully degenerate cases. It is pointed out that the effect of electron degeneracy reduces the Bremsstrahlung energy loss to 0.01 times of that in the nondegenerate case in the typical state of an inertial confinement fusion target whose number density is 4.5 x 10 to the 26th power/cu cm and temperature is one-million K.
- Publication:
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Unknown
- Pub Date:
- March 1982
- Bibcode:
- 1982beld.rept.....Y
- Keywords:
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- Bremsstrahlung;
- Degenerate Matter;
- Emission;
- Energy Dissipation;
- Inertial Confinement Fusion;
- Plasmas (Physics);
- Electron Density (Concentration);
- Electron Scattering;
- Electrons;
- Targets;
- Plasma Physics