Inertial fusion features in degenerate plasmas

Laser and Particle Beams

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 193-198

  León, Pablo T ^a,b   Eliezer, Shalom ^a   Piera, Mireia ^a   Martínez Val, José M ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE FUSIÓN NUCLEAR   (Spain)

^b NONE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Degenerate; Fast Ignition; Inertial fusion

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION; ENERGY CONSERVATION; FERMI LEVEL; IGNITION; OPTIMIZATION; PLASMA DENSITY; PROBLEM SOLVING; RADIATION;

DEGENERATE; FAST-IGNITION; IGNITION-TEMPERATURE; INERTIAL FUSION;

FUSION REACTIONS;

EID: 21644478967     PISSN: 02630346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0263034605050342     Document Type: Article

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