Experimental demonstration of particle energy, conversion efficiency and spectral shape required for ion-based fast ignition

Nuclear Fusion

Volumn 51, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Hegelich, B M ^a,b   Jung, D ^a,b   Albright, B J ^a   Fernandez, J C ^a   Gautier, D C ^a   Huang, C ^a   Kwan, T J ^a   Letzring, S ^a   Palaniyappan, S ^a   Shah, R C ^a   Wu, H C ^a   Yin, L ^a   Henig, A ^b   Horlein R ^b   Kiefer, D ^b   Schreiber, J ^b   Yan, X Q ^b   Tajima, T ^b   Habs, D ^b   Dromey, B ^c   Honrubia, J J ^d   more..

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAM ENERGIES; CARBON IONS; ENERGY DEPOSITIONS; ENERGY SPREADS; FAST IGNITION; HIGH ENERGY; LASER LIGHTS; PARTICLE ENERGY; PARTICLE TRANSPORT; PROOF-OF-PRINCIPLE EXPERIMENTS; QUASI-MONOENERGETIC; SHORT-PULSE LASERS; SPECTRAL SHAPES; THEORETICAL MINIMUM; THREE PARAMETERS;

BEAM PLASMA INTERACTIONS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; EXPERIMENTS; ION BEAMS; ION BOMBARDMENT; IONS;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

EID: 79961058760     PISSN: 00295515     EISSN: 17414326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0029-5515/51/8/083011     Document Type: Article

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