Fast plasma heating in a cone-attached geometry - Towards fusion ignition

Nuclear Fusion

Volumn 44, Issue 12, 2004, Pages

  Kodama, R ^a   Azechi, H ^a   Fujita, H ^a   Habara, H ^a   Izawa, Y ^a   Jitsuno, T ^a   Jozaki, T ^a   Kitagawa, Y ^a   Krushelnick, K ^b   Matsuoka, T ^a   Mima, K ^a   Miyanaga, N ^a   Nagai, K ^a   Nagatomo, H ^a   Nakai, M ^a   Nishimura, H ^a   Norimatsu, T ^a   Norreys, P ^c   Shigemori, K ^a   Shiraga, H ^a   Sunahara, A ^a   Tanaka, K A ^a   Tanpo, M ^a   Toyama, Y ^a   Tsubakimoto, K ^a   Yamanaka, T ^a   Zepf, M ^d   more..

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^d QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; IGNITION; LASER FUSION; LASER PULSES; NEUTRONS; PLASMA DENSITY; TARGETS;

ELECTRON ENERGY TRANSPORT; FUSION IGNITION; PW LASER HEATING; SHORT PULSE LASER;

PLASMA HEATING;

EID: 19944367870     PISSN: 00295515     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0029-5515/44/12/S19     Document Type: Article

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