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Excerpt from Thermalization of a Fast Ion in a Plasma
The question of the precise rate of thermalization of a fast ion in a plasma is of some interest in connection with several existing or proposed controlled thermonuclear devices. In this report, we follow a fast ion which is injected into a plasma in equilibrium. Specifically, we determine the time history of the probability distribution of this ion in velocity space. This is done by numerical integration of the linearized, space-independent Fokker Planck equation with both the ion-ion and ion-electron interaction terms retained. The mean time of thermalization is calculated for several widely separated injection veloci ties. Some other properties of this single-ion probability distribution are analyzed.
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