Thermonuclear-neutron yield from a plasma compressed by a shell
Bogolyubskii S.L., Gerasimov B.P., Liksonov V.I., Mikhailov A.P., Popov Yu.P., Rudakov L.I., Samarskii A.A., Smirnov V.P.
A polyethylene piston 10 μ thick, accelerated with the aid of a relativistic-electron beam to (5-7) Χ 106 cm/sec, compressed a deuterium plasma in a lead cone by a factor 1000 to a density 1022 cm-3 and heated it to a temperature 1 keV. In accordance with the calculations, (1-3)X106 thermonuclear neutrons were registered per pulse.