Intense ion beams for inertial confinement fusion

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1336-1356

  Mehlhorn, Thomas A ^a  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Fusion power generation; Inertial confinement; Ion accelerators; Ion diodes; Ion sources; Light ion fusion; Optical spectroscopy; Particle beam; Particle beam focusing

Indexed keywords

INERTIAL CONFINEMENT FUSION; ION SOURCES; PARTICLE BEAM INJECTION; TARGETS;

LIGHT ION DRIVERS; OPTICAL SPECTROSCOPY;

ION BEAMS;

EID: 0031355182     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/27.650904     Document Type: Article

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