Laser-generated nanosecond pulsed neutron sources: Scaling from VULCAN to table-top

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 7, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Žagar, Tomaž ^a,c   Galy, Jean ^a   Magill, Joseph ^a   Kellett, Mark ^b  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^b INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Austria)

^c JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTONS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

NENOSECOND PULSES; NEUTRON PRODUCTION; NEUTRON SPECTRA;

LASER BEAMS;

EID: 29144455412     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: 13672630     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/7/1/253     Document Type: Article

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