Demonstration of Fusion-Evaporation and Direct-Interaction Nuclear Reactions using High-Intensity Laser-Plasma-Accelerated Ion Beams

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 91, Issue 7, 2003, Pages

  McKenna, P ^a   Ledingham, K W D ^a,d   McCanny, T ^a   Singhal, R P ^b   Spencer, I ^b   Santala, M I K ^c   Beg, F N ^c   Krushelnick, K ^c   Tatarakis, M ^c   Wei, M S ^c   Clark, E L ^d   Clarke, R J ^e   Lancaster, K L ^e   Norreys, P A ^e   Spohr, K ^f   Chapman, R ^f   Zepf, M ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c Blackett Laboratory   (United Kingdom)

^d AWE   (United Kingdom)

^e Harwell Science and Innovation Campus   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF SCOTLAND   (United Kingdom)

^g QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; FUSION REACTIONS; ION BEAMS; LASER ABLATION; LASER PRODUCED PLASMAS;

FUSION-EVAPORATION;

PLASMA THEORY;

EID: 0141794391     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.075006     Document Type: Article

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