Improved performance of direct-drive inertial confinement fusion target designs with adiabat shaping using an intensity picket

Physics of Plasmas

Volumn 10, Issue 5 II, 2003, Pages 1906-1918

  Goncharov, V N ^a   Knauer, J P ^a   McKenty, P W ^a   Radha, P B ^a   Sangster, T C ^a   Skupsky, S ^a   Betti, R ^a   McCrory, R L ^a   Meyerhofer, D D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENTROPY; INERTIAL CONFINEMENT FUSION; NEUTRONS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

LASER IMPRINT;

HYDRODYNAMICS;

EID: 0037737934     PISSN: 1070664X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1562166     Document Type: Conference Paper

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