Adam Stahl

TL;DR: It is found that the average synchrotron spectra emitted from realistic distribution functions are not well approximated by the emission of a single electron at the maximum energy.

TL;DR: The observation of an elevated effective critical field can mainly be attributed to changes in the momentum-space distribution of runaways, and only to a lesser extent to a de facto change in the critical field.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a kinetic model for hot-tail runaway-electron generation with time-dependent plasma parameters, and they show that the simpler avalanche model of Rosenbluth & Putvinskii [Nucl. Fusion 37, 1355] can give very inaccurate results for the avalanche growth rate for many parameters, especially when the average runaway energy is modest.

TL;DR: The dynamics of fast electrons in plasmas containing partially ionized impurity atoms, where the screening effect of bound electrons must be included, are analyzed, and analytical expressions for the deflection and slowing-down frequencies are derived.

TL;DR: In this article, the effect of the Abraham-Lorentz-Dirac (ALD) radiation force on the acceleration of the electron is investigated using relativistic finite-difference Fokker-planck codes.