Inertial confinement fusion ablator physics experiments on Saturn and Nova

Physics of Plasmas

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1818-1824

  Olson, R E ^a   Porter, J L ^a   Chandler, G A ^a   Fehl, D L ^a   Jobe, D O ^a   Leeper, R J ^a   Matzen, M K ^a   Mcgurn, J S ^a   Noack, D D ^a   Ruggles, L E ^a   Sawyer, P ^a   Torres, J A ^a   Vargas, M ^a   Zagar, D M ^a   Kornblum, H N ^b   Orzechowski, T J ^b   Phillion, D W ^b   Suter, L J ^b   Thiessen, A R ^b   Wallace, R J ^b  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

ABLATION; IMPLOSIONS; INERTIAL CONFINEMENT; LASER TARGETS; NOVA FACILITY; PINCH DEVICES; SHOCK WAVES; X RADIATION

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001725574     PISSN: 1070664X     EISSN: 10897674     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.872295     Document Type: Conference Paper

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