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# (actually energy, but in plasma physics we just call it temperature :-)
On the plot of cross section vs T, I always understood that the plots which show energy are "per-particle", whereas the plots which show temperature are integrated over a Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution -- this also leads to a reduction in the peak T/E for the DT distribution thanks to the Maxwell tail.
The comment on L179 of the script seems to suggest that T vs E is just taking temperature vs energy, presumably just considering E = E_thermal for a distribution?
Anyway, the long and short of my question is: Is it just sigma(energy), scaled by 1/1.1e4 to translate between energy (eV) and temperature (K), or are thermal distributions taken into account?
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fusion_plots/fusion_cross_sections/fusion_cross_sections.py
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On the plot of cross section vs T, I always understood that the plots which show energy are "per-particle", whereas the plots which show temperature are integrated over a Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution -- this also leads to a reduction in the peak T/E for the DT distribution thanks to the Maxwell tail.
The comment on L179 of the script seems to suggest that T vs E is just taking temperature vs energy, presumably just considering E = E_thermal for a distribution?
Anyway, the long and short of my question is: Is it just sigma(energy), scaled by 1/1.1e4 to translate between energy (eV) and temperature (K), or are thermal distributions taken into account?
The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: