MONTE-CARLO SIMULATIONS OF FUSION KINETIC PROCESSES USED TO EVALUATE DIAGNOSTIC-TECHNIQUES FOR LASER TARGET PLASMA

Review and systematization of our investigations in thermonuclear (TN) plasma particle diagnostic methods are presented. The proposed diagno stic schemes are based on direct numerical simulations of nuclear reac tion products kinetics in a dense hot plasma with the following interp retation of the results by means of analytical scaling relations for c harged particles energy loss in plasma with arbitrary degeneration of electron gas. The simulations of the kinetic equations system solution for TN particles is carried out by TERA code based on Monte-Carlo met hod. The diagnostic schemes are presented in the form of families of i soline curves at the (rho R, T)-plane which are related to the constan t values of measured spectrum characteristics. The searching plasma pa rameters rho R and temperature T are determined by points of intercept ions of curves related to the distinct characteristics. The ranges of applicability of different methods of particle diagnostics are investi gated in detail.