Radiation loss from inertially confined degenerate plasmas

Laser and Particle Beams

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 599-607

  Eliezer, Shalom ^a   León, Pablo T ^b   Martinez Val, José M ^b   Fisher, Dimitri V ^a  

^a SOREQ NUCLEAR RESEARCH CENTER   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bremsstrahlung; Degenerate plasma; Fusion; Ignition; Radiation

Indexed keywords

CHARGED PARTICLES; FERMI LEVEL; FUSION REACTIONS; HEAT CONDUCTION; IGNITION; INTEGRATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHOTONS; RADIATION EFFECTS; STOICHIOMETRY;

BREMSSTRAHLUNG; DEGENERATE PLASMA; RADIATION ENERGY; RADIATION LOSS;

PLASMAS;

EID: 2442500775     PISSN: 02630346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0263034603214191     Document Type: Conference Paper

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