Beam-Weibel filamentation instability in near-term and fast-ignition experiments

Physics of Plasmas

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

  Hill, Jeremy Martin ^a   Key, Michael H ^b   Hatchett, Stephen P ^b   Freeman, Richard R ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTI-PARALLEL CURRENTS; ELECTRON ACCELERATION; HIGH INTENSITY LASER-PLASMA INTERACTIONS; INSTABILITY GROWTH;

ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTROSTATICS; LASER BEAMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLASMA DENSITY; VELOCITY CONTROL;

PLASMAS;

EID: 24344440226     PISSN: 1070664X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1986988     Document Type: Article

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