A credible pathway for heavy ion driven target fabrication and injection

Laser and Particle Beams

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 515-520

  Goodin, D T ^a   Nobile, A ^b   Alexander, N B ^a   Brown, L C ^a   Maxwell, J L ^b   Pulsifer, J ^c   Schwendt, A M ^b   Tillack, M ^c   Willms, R S ^b  

^a GENERAL ATOMICS   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fabrication; Fusion; Heavy ions; Inertial; Targets

Indexed keywords

INERTIAL CONFINEMENT FUSION; ION BEAMS; IONIZATION CHAMBERS; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; PARTICLE BEAM INJECTION; TARGETS;

INERTIAL FUSION ENERGY (IFE);

HEAVY IONS;

EID: 0036945172     PISSN: 02630346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0263034602203304     Document Type: Conference Paper

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