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Electron and Ion Beams, Accelerators

Plasma-optical mass separation of isotopes in the magnetic field of linear current

V. M. Bardakov^a, G. N. Kichigin^b, N. A. Strokin^c, E. O. Tsaregorodtsev<sup>c

a</sup> Irkutsk State University of Railway Engineering
^b Institute of Solar-Terrestrial Physics, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Irkutsk
^c Irkutsk State Technical University

Abstract: The existing methods of electromagnetic mass separation are analyzed. The trajectories of ions injected into the separation region along various directions in the magnetic field of a linear current are calculated. On the basis of analysis, two new schemes of mass separators with a plasma accelerator as the ion source are proposed. In the first scheme, plasma is injected along the longitudinal axis of the accelerator, while in the second scheme, an accelerator with annular ejection of the plasma flow along the radius in the direction of the longitudinal axis of the separator is used.

Received: 17.11.2009
Accepted: 01.03.2010

 English version: Technical Physics, 2010, 55:10, 1504–1508

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