Inertial-confinement fusion with fast ignition

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 357, Issue 1752, 1999, Pages 555-574

  Willi, O ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fast ignition; Hole boring; Inertial fusion energy; Laser fusion; Relativistic channelling; Relativistic laser plasma interaction

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346339561     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.1999.0341     Document Type: Article

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