Transport of heavy-ion beams in a 1 m free-standing plasma channel

Laser and Particle Beams

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 71-80

  Neff, S ^a,b   Knobloch, R ^a   Hoffmann, D H H ^a,b   Tauschwitz, A ^b   Yu, S S ^c  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b GSI HELMHOLTZZENTRUM FÜR SCHWERIONENFORSCHUNG GMBH   (Germany)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

ARIES study; Heavy ion beam; Inertial confinement fusion; Plasma Channel

Indexed keywords

ARIES STUDY; HEAVY-ION BEAM; HEAVY-ION FUSION REACTORS; PLASMA CHANNEL;

BEAM PLASMA INTERACTIONS; INERTIAL CONFINEMENT FUSION; IONS; PARTICLE BEAM TRACKING; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

PARTICLE BEAM DYNAMICS;

EID: 33644879428     PISSN: 02630346     EISSN: 1469803X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0263034606060125     Document Type: Conference Paper

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