Photonuclear fission from high energy electrons from ultraintense laser-solid interactions

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 84, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 903-906

  Cowan, T E ^a   Hunt, A W ^e   Phillips, T W ^a   Wilks, S C ^a   Perry, M D ^a   Brown, C ^a   Fountain, W ^c   Hatchett, S ^a   Johnson, J ^d   Pennington, D M ^a   Snavely, R A ^a   Takahashi, Y ^b  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

^c NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

^e HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0000938318     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.903     Document Type: Article

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