The National ignition facility and the National ignition campaign

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 38, Issue 4 PART 2, 2010, Pages 684-689

  Moses, E I ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

High energy density (HED) science; Inertial con finement fusion (ICF); Inertial fusion energy (IFE); Laser IFE; National Ignition Campaign (NIC); National Ignition Facility (NIF)

Indexed keywords

HIGH ENERGY DENSITIES; INERTIAL CON-FINEMENT FUSION (ICF); INERTIAL FUSION ENERGY; INERTIAL FUSION ENERGY (IFE); NATIONAL IGNITION FACILITY;

ASTROPHYSICS; DEUTERIUM; EXPERIMENTS; GLASS LASERS; HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS; IGNITION; LABORATORIES; LASER FUSION; NEODYMIUM LASERS; NUCLEAR PHYSICS; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY; TRITIUM; ULTRAVIOLET LASERS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

INERTIAL CONFINEMENT FUSION;

EID: 77951091741     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2010.2042466     Document Type: Conference Paper

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