Progress and prospects of ion-driven fast ignition

Nuclear Fusion

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Fernández, Juan C ^a   Honrubia, J J ^b   Albright, Brian J ^a   Flippo, Kirk A ^a   Gautier, D Cort ^a   Hegelich, Björn M ^a   Schmitt, Mark J ^a   Temporal, M ^b   Yin, Lin ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

A-SPOTS; BEAM ENERGIES; ENERGY DEPOSITIONS; FAST IGNITION; FUEL DENSITY; HIGH ENERGY; HIGH-CURRENT; IGNITOR BEAMS; LASER TARGETS; MONOENERGETIC; PICOSECOND; POWER DENSITIES; PROOF-OF-PRINCIPLE EXPERIMENTS; TIME-SCALES; TRADE SPACE;

ION BEAMS; LASERS; TARGETS;

IONS;

EID: 67649411659     PISSN: 00295515     EISSN: 17414326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0029-5515/49/6/065004     Document Type: Article

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