Physics of High-Density Z-Pinch Plasmas (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780387985688)

Plasmas are a hot, ionized gas that conducts electric currents, as in a spark or bolt of lightning; they can reach temperatures of millions of degrees. Sending a large electric current through a fine wire vaporizes it, producing a dense plasma confined by the magnetic field the current generates. The direction along the wire (and the current) is generally referred to as the z-axis, hence the name z-pinch for the magnetic interaction that confines the plasma along the z-axis. Such plasmas can produce intense radiation over a wide spectrum and also show promise of leading to conditions for controlled nuclear fusion.

Author: Michael A. Liberman, John S. de Groot, Arthur Toor
ISBN-10: 0387985689
ISBN-13: 9780387985688
Publisher: Springer
Language: English
Published: 05/21/1999
Pages: 277
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.24lbs
Size: 9.53h x 6.36w x 0.74d