Nuclearfusion from explosions of femtosecond laser-heated deuterium clusters

Nature

Volumn 398, Issue 6727, 1999, Pages 489-492

  Ditmire, T ^a   Zweiback, J ^a   Yanovsky, V P ^a   Cowan, T E ^a   Hays, G ^a   Wharton, K B ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEUTERIUM;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ION TRANSPORT; LASER; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NEUTRON; NUCLEAR ENERGY; NUCLEAR PHYSICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

DEUTERIUM; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; KINETIC ENERGY; LASER PRODUCED PLASMAS; LASER PULSES; PHOTOIONIZATION;

DEUTERIUM CLUSTERS;

LASER FUSION;

EID: 0033535453     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/19037     Document Type: Article

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