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General characteristics of fusion-neutron emission from megajoule plasma-focus facility

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The main goal of the paper was to study characteristic features of the fusion-produced neutrons emitted from Plasma-Focus (PF) discharges within the PF-1000 facility operated in the IPPLM in Warsaw. Neutron emission properties have been studied in this paper using a comprehensive range of neutron diagnostics, including calibrated activation counters placed at different angles and neutron time of flight measurements performed by scintillation probes placed at different distances from the plasma column. The highest neutron yield registered so far has been 3.5 × 1011 per shot.

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  1. Institute of Plasma Physics and Laser Microfusion, Hery 23, P.O. Box 49, 00-908, Warsaw, Poland

    M. Scholz, B. Bieńkowska, I. M. Ivanova-Stanik, L. Karpiński, M. Paduch & E. Zielińska

  2. Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Department of Physics, Czech Technical University, Technická 2, 166 27, Prague, Czech Republic

    J. Kravárik & P. Kubeš

  3. The Andrzej Sołtan Institute for Nuclear Studies (IPJ), 05-400, Otwock-Świerk, Poland

    M. J. Sadowski & A. Szydłowski

  4. International Centre for Dense of Magnetized Plasmas, 00-908, Warsaw, Poland

    H. Schmidt

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Scholz, M., Bieńkowska, B., Ivanova-Stanik, I.M. et al. General characteristics of fusion-neutron emission from megajoule plasma-focus facility. Czech J Phys 56 (Suppl 2), B243–B249 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10582-006-0206-3

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