Dreicer field
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Dreicer field
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The Dreicer field is the critical electric field above which electrons in a collisional plasma can be accelerated to become runaway electrons. It was named after Harry Dreicer who derived the expression in 1959 and expanded on the concept in 1960. The Dreicer field is an important parameter in the study of tokamaks to suppress runaway generation in nuclear fusion. The Dreicer field is given by E D = 1 4 π ϵ 0 2 n e 3 ln Λ m e v T e 2 where n is the electron density, e is the elementary charge,
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