Photonuclear fission with quasimonoenergetic electron beams from laser wakefields

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 23, 2006, Pages

  Reed, S A ^a   Chvykov, V ^a   Kalintchenko, G ^a   Matsuoka, T ^a   Rousseau, P ^a   Yanovsky, V ^a   Vane, C R ^b   Beene, J R ^b   Stracener, D ^b   Schultz, D R ^b   Maksimchuk, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER WAKEFIELDS; PHOTOFISSION; PHOTONUCLEAR FISSION; QUASIMONOENERGETIC ELECTRON BEAMS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; FISSION REACTIONS; GAMMA RAYS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS;

ELECTRON BEAMS;

EID: 33845394860     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2400400     Document Type: Article

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