Heavy ion fusion requires high power to be focussed onto a small pellet. If the reactor chamber pressure is below 10/sup -4/ to 10/sup -5/ Torr, beam compression will be limited by space charge unless neutralized by co-moving electrons. If higher chamber pressures are used, the heavy ion beam will create a significant number of background electrons during its propagation and will undergo stripping. The background electrons could provide the neutralization required for high beam intensities. In this paper we will focus on the physics associated with propagation through a fully ionized hydrogen plasma, so background electron generation is not included. One-dimensional electrostatic and two-dimensional fully electromagnetic particle-in-cell simulations are presented. If a background plasma is present, we find that coinjected electrons whose purpose is to charge and current neutralize the ion beam become two-stream unstable and no longer provide the thermally cool neutralization required. Further, we find that the ion induced background electron temperature is very sensitive to the ion beam to background electron charge density ratio.

Hydraulic fracturing has gained in popularity in recent years as a way to determine the orientations and magnitudes of tectonic stresses. By augmenting conventional hydraulic fracturing measurements with detection and mapping of the microearthquakes induced by fracturing, we can supplement and idependently confirm information obtained from conventional analysis. Important information obtained from seismic monitoring includes: the state of stress of the rock, orientation and spacing of the major joint sets, and measurements of rock elastic parameters at locations distant from the wellbore. While conventional well logging operations can provide information about several of these parameters, the zone of interrogation is usually limited to the immediate proximity of the borehole. The seismic waveforms of the microearthquakes contain a wealth of information about the rock in regions that are otherwise inaccessible for study. By reliably locating the hypocenters of many microearthquakes, we have inferred the joint patterns in the rock. We observed that microearthquake locations do not define a simple, thin, planar distribution, that the fault plane solutions are consistent with shear slippage, and that spectral analysis indicates that the source dimensions and slip along the faults are small. Hence we believe that the microearthquakes result from slip along preexisting joints, and …

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