ON THERMALIZATION CHARACTERISTICS OF FAST IONS IN HOT DENSE D 3 H E PLASMA

Abstract

A hot dense plasma, which is in a completely ionized state, is considered. In fusion processes high-energy particles with energies in 1-14 MeV range appear. On the way to come into thermal equilibrium with environment medium they lose excess energy on thermalization length in corresponding thermalization time. Examining only charged components of fusion products and considering stopping characteristics of ions in hot dense plasma due to Coulomb interaction, the parameters of thermalization length and time in D3He plasma are calculated numerically using iterations procedure.