Review of progress in Fast Ignition

Physics of Plasmas

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1-8

  Tabak, M ^a   Clark, D S ^a   Hatchett, S P ^a   Key, M H ^a   Lasinski, B F ^a   Snavely, R A ^a   Wilks, S C ^a   Town, R P J ^a   Stephens, R ^b   Campbell, E M ^b   Kodama, R ^c   Mima, K ^c   Tanaka, K A ^c   Atzeni, S ^d   Freeman, R ^e  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b GENERAL ATOMICS   (United States)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^e OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSED CORES; FAST IGNITION; LASER ENERGY; PARTICLE DEPOSITION RANGE;

DEUTERIUM; FUNCTIONS; LASER BEAMS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PLASMAS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

IGNITION;

EID: 20844462080     PISSN: 1070664X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1871246     Document Type: Conference Paper

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