PLASMA TECHNIQUE

**Definition:** This place covers:

Systems and methods for handling plasma, i.e.:

Generating plasma;

Confining plasma.

These systems are essentially related to experimental plasma systems used for studying the conditions for a controlled thermonuclear fusion.

Methods for investigating plasma, i.e. for measuring plasma parameters;

Systems and methods for generating local plasma to be used in industrial applications, e.g. plasma torches for cutting, welding, spraying or incinerating;

Systems and methods for generating and/or accelerating neutral particle beams, i.e. atomic or molecular beams, neutron beams;

Targets for producing nuclear reactions under irradiation;

Systems and methods for accelerating charged particle beams, i.e. electrostatic accelerators, linear accelerators, magnetic induction accelerators, magnetic resonance accelerators.

**Limiting references (this place does not cover):** - Apparatus or processes specially adapted for producing X-rays -> H05G2/00