Temporal characteristics of runaway electrons in electron-neutral collision-dominated plasma of dense gases. Monte Carlo calculations

Author

Bakhov, Konstantin I. ; Babich, Leonid P. ; Kutsyk, Igor M.

Author_Institution

Russian Federal Nucl. Centre, Sarov, Russia

Volume

28

Issue

4

fYear

2000

fDate

8/1/2000 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1254

Lastpage

1262

Abstract

Electron runaway rates, and runaway delay time, runaway threshold energies were obtained from Monte Carlo (MC) simulations in the field domains 35-400 kV/cm and 240-400 kV/cm, respectively, for helium and nitrogen at 1 atm. MC simulations disprove all available analytical theories that ignore angular scattering of electrons, with the sole exception of Gurevich´s theory for helium, in which angular scattering is relatively weak

Keywords

Monte Carlo methods; plasma collision processes; plasma simulation; plasma transport processes; 1 atm; Gurevich´s theory; He; Monte Carlo calculations; N₂; analytical theories; angular scattering; dense gases; electron-neutral collision-dominated plasma; electrons angular scattering; runaway delay time; runaway electrons; runaway threshold energies; temporal characteristics; Electrons; Equations; Helium; Kinetic theory; Monte Carlo methods; Particle scattering; Plasma density; Plasma properties; Plasma simulation; Stochastic processes;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Plasma Science, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0093-3813

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/27.893314

Filename

893314