Progress in heavy ion target capsule and hohlraum design

Laser and Particle Beams

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 405-410

  Callahan, Debra A ^a   Herrmann, Mark C ^a   Tabak, Max ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Heavy ion targets; Indirect drive; Inertial confinement fusion

Indexed keywords

FABRICATION; HEAVY IONS; INERTIAL CONFINEMENT FUSION; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; OPTIMIZATION; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TARGETS;

HOHLRAUM DESIGNS; PLASTIC ABLATOR CAPSULES;

HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS;

EID: 0036950958     PISSN: 02630346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0263034602203079     Document Type: Conference Paper

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