# Ion Kinetics and Neutron Generation Associated with Electromagnetic Turbulence in Laboratory-scale Counter-streaming Plasmas

Source: [Ion Kinetics and Neutron Generation Associated with Electromagnetic Turbulence in Laboratory-scale Counter-streaming Plasmas](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa468d1e209131ce92148c>)

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Authors: P. Liu, D. Wu, T. X. Hu, D. W. Yuan, G. Zhao, Z. M. Sheng, X. T. He, J. Zhang

Published: 2024-03-12T14:43:49.000Z

## Abstract

Electromagnetic turbulence and ion kinetics in counter-streaming plasmas hold great significance in laboratory astrophysics, such as turbulence field amplification and particle energization. Here, we quantitatively demonstrate for the first time how electromagnetic turbulence affects ion kinetics under achievable laboratory conditions (millimeter-scale interpenetrating plasmas with initial velocity of $2000\\ \\mathrm{km/s}$, density of $4 \\times 10^{19}\\ \\mathrm{cm}^{-3}$, and temperature of $100\\ \\mathrm{eV}$) utilizing a recently developed high-order implicit particle-in-cell code without scaling transformation. It is found that the electromagnetic turbulence is driven by ion two-stream and filamentation instabilities. For the magnetized scenarios where an applied magnetic field of tens of Tesla is perpendicular to plasma flows, the growth rates of instabilities increase with the strengthening of applied magnetic field, which therefore leads to a significant enhancement of turbulence fields. Under the competition between the stochastic acceleration due to electromagnetic turbulence and collisional thermalization, ion distribution function shows a distinct super-Gaussian shape, and the ion kinetics are manifested in neutron yields and spectra. Our results have well explained the recent unmagnetized experimental observations, and the findings of magnetized scenario can be verified by current astrophysical experiments.

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## Original sources and implementation

[Original paper](<https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07699>)

[PDF](<https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.07699.pdf>)