Simulation of heating-compressed fast-ignition cores by petawatt laser-generated electrons

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 5, 2005, Pages

  Campbell, R B ^a   Kodama, R ^b   Mehlhorn, T A ^a   Tanaka, K A ^b   Welch, D R ^c  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c MISSION RESEARCH CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEATING-COMPRESSED FAST-IGNITION CORES; LASER-PLASMA INTERACTION; PARTICLE-IN-CELL (PIC); PETAWATT LASER-GENERATED ELECTRONS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; HYDRODYNAMICS; PLASMAS; POLYSTYRENES;

ELECTRON BEAMS;

EID: 18144386885     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.055001     Document Type: Article

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