Measurement of radiation symmetry in Z-pinch-driven hohlraums

Physics of Plasmas

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 2173-2181

  Hanson, D L ^a,b,c,d   Vesey, R A ^a,b,c,d   Cuneo, M E ^a,b,c,d   Porter Jr , J L ^a,b,c,d   Chandler, G A ^a,b,c,d   Ruggles, L E ^a,b,c,d   Simpson, W W ^a,b,c,d   Torres, J ^a,b,c,d   McGurn, J ^a,b,c,d   Hebron, D ^a,b,c,d   Dropinski, S C ^a,b,c,d   Hammer, J H ^a,b,c,d   Bennett, G R ^a,b,c,d   Seaman, H ^a,b,c,d   Gilliland, T L ^a,b,c,d   Schroen, D G ^a,b,c,d  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c KTECH CORPORATION   (United States)

^d SCHAFER CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BURN-THROUGH; CRITICAL ISSUES; FOAM BALLS; GEOMETRIC CONTROL; HIGH ENERGY; HIGH YIELD; HIGHER ORDER EFFECTS; HOHLRAUMS; LOW DENSITY FOAM; MEASUREMENT SENSITIVITY; POWER BALANCE; RADIATION FLUXES; THIN WALLS; Z ACCELERATOR; Z-BEAMLET LASER; Z-PINCH HOHLRAUM; Z-PINCH IMPLOSION;

EXPERIMENTS; GEOMETRY; PINCH EFFECT;

LASER FUSION;

EID: 0000831412     PISSN: 1070664X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1455002     Document Type: Conference Paper

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