Limitation on prepulse level for cone-guided fast-ignition inertial confinement Fusion

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 104, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  MacPhee, A G ^a   Divol, L ^a   Kemp, A J ^a   Akli, K U ^b   Beg, F N ^c   Chen, C D ^a   Chen, H ^a   Hey, D S ^a   Fedosejevs, R J ^d   Freeman, R R ^e   Henesian, M ^a   Key, M H ^a   Le Pape, S ^a   Link, A ^d   Ma, T ^a,c   MacKinnon, A J ^a   Ovchinnikov, V M ^e   Patel, P K ^a   Phillips, T W ^a   Stephens, R B ^b   Tabak, M ^a   Town, R ^a   Tsui, Y Y ^d   Van Woerkom, L D ^e   Wei, M S ^c   Wilks, S C ^a   more..

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b GENERAL ATOMICS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^e OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONE TARGETS; DEPOSITION ZONE; ELECTRON DISTRIBUTIONS; ENERGY DEPOSITION MECHANISM; ENERGY DEPOSITIONS; FAST IGNITION; HOT ELECTRON GENERATION; LASER ENERGIES; LASER PREPULSES; MAIN PULSE; MEV-ELECTRONS; PARTICLE IN CELL; PREFORMED PLASMA; PREPULSES; RADIATION HYDRODYNAMICS; ULTRAINTENSE LASER PLASMA INTERACTIONS;

BEAM PLASMA INTERACTIONS; INERTIAL CONFINEMENT FUSION;

ELECTRONS;

EID: 76249095842     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.055002     Document Type: Article

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