Experimental data of neutron yield
Y
n against pinch current
I
pinch is assembled to produce a more global scaling law than available. From the data a mid-range point is obtained to calibrate
the neutron production mechanism of the Lee Model code. This code is then used for numerical experiments on a range of focus
devices to derive neutron scaling laws. The results are the following:
Y
n = 2 × 10
11
I
pinch
4.7 and
Y
n = 9 × 10
9
I
peak
3.9. It is felt that the scaling law with respect to
I
pinch is rigorously obtained by these numerical experiments when compared with that obtained from measured data, which suffers
from inadequacies in the measurements of
I
pinch.
Keywords Plasma Focus - Neutron scaling - Pinch current - Focus modeling - Lee Model