Heavy ion beam transport in an inertial confinement fusion reactor

Fusion Engineering and Design

Volumn 32-33, Issue 1-4, 1996, Pages 453-466

  Barboza, N ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTRONS; FOCUSING; FUSION REACTORS; INERTIAL CONFINEMENT FUSION; IONIZATION OF GASES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARTICLE BEAM DYNAMICS; PLASMAS;

PARTICLE IN CELL SIMULATION CODES; SELF GENERATED ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; SOFTWARE PACKAGE BTRAC;

ION BEAMS;

EID: 0030289811     PISSN: 09203796     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0920-3796(96)00501-7     Document Type: Article

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