Ignition condition and gain prediction for perturbed inertial confinement fusion targets

Physics of Plasmas

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2001, Pages 4925-4936

  Kishony, Roy ^a   Shvarts, Dov ^a,b  

^a NUCLEAR RESEARCH CENTER NEGEV   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

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EID: 0042491380     PISSN: 1070664X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1412009     Document Type: Article

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