Plasma devices to guide and collimate a high density of MeV electrons

Nature

Volumn 432, Issue 7020, 2004, Pages 1005-1008

  Kodama, R ^a   Sentoku, Y ^b   Chen, Z L ^a   Kumar, G R ^a,h   Hatchett, S P ^c   Toyama, Y ^a   Cowan, T E ^b   Freeman, R R ^d,e   Fuchs, J ^b,i   Izawa, Y ^a   Key, M H ^c   Kitagawa, Y ^a   Kondo, K ^a   Matsuoka, T ^a   Nakamura, H ^a   Nakatsutsumi, M ^a   Horreys, P A ^f   Norimatsu, T ^a   Snavely, R A ^c   Stephens, R B ^g   Tampo, M ^a   Tanaka, K A ^e   Yabuuchi, T ^a   more..

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^g GENERAL ATOMICS   (United States)

^h TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

ⁱ Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENT DENSITY; ELECTRONS; LASER FUSION; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; OPTICAL FIBERS;

HIGH-CONDUCTIVITY DEVICES; HIGH-ENERGY CHARGED PARTICLES; PLASMA FIBRES; TRANSIENT PLASMAS;

PLASMA DEVICES;

PLASMA;

ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; CONDUCTANCE; DEVICE; ELECTRON; ENERGY; LASER; OPTICS; PLASMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 19944388217     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03133     Document Type: Article

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