Coronal equilibrium of high—atomic-number plasmas

Abstract

The distribution of ionization states in carbon, aluminum, copper, and tungsten plasmas is determined from the corona-model equilibrium. The variations of mean ionization level, internal energy, and radiation rates for continuum and lines with temperature are then determined by averaging over the ionization states. Results can be applied to studies of a variety of existing laboratory plasmas and to analyses of the effects of impurities in fusion plasmas.