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Join ANS on Thursday, January 21, at noon (ET) for a Q&A with an expert panel as they discuss how to communicate about the risk of low-dose radiation. “Talking About Low-dose Radiation Risk” is a free members-only event that serves as a follow-up to the “Risky Business” President’s Session that took place during the ANS Virtual Winter Meeting last November. The session will take a deeper dive into the many questions generated from the thought-provoking discussion.
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H. Cho, J.-S. Yoon, M.-Y. Song
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 63 | Number 3 | May 2013 | Pages 349-357
Technical Paper | Selected papers from IAEA-NFRI Technical Meeting on Data Evaluation for Atomic, Molecular and Plasma-Material Interaction Processes in Fusion, September 4-7, 2012, Daejeon, Republic of Korea | dx.doi.org/10.13182/FST13-A16441
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
In plasmas including fusion plasmas, various molecules exist in neutral and ionized forms and interact with each other as well as with electrons and photons. To properly understand and control the plasma, cross sections of these interactions are needed. Many of these interaction processes are initiated by electron scattering, and therefore an understanding of the electron scattering with atoms and molecules in plasma and their associated cross sections are very important to understanding of plasma. In this paper we evaluate the total electron scattering cross sections (TCSs) for eight plasma-relevant molecules - C2F6, CF3Cl, CF3I, C3F8, c-C4F8, CH4, C2H4, and C2H6 - both to present recommended TCSs and to demonstrate evaluation methods. We have reviewed data from the literature up to mid-2012 and the energy range of interest is up to and including 100 eV. TCSs for these common molecules, which are supposed to be in the best situation among the scattering cross sections, are far from satisfactory. More activities in measurements of cross sections are required.