Bright laser-driven neutron source based on the relativistic transparency of solids

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 110, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Roth, M ^a,b   Jung, D ^b   Falk, K ^b   Guler, N ^b   Deppert, O ^a   Devlin, M ^b   Favalli, A ^b   Fernandez, J ^b   Gautier, D ^b   Geissel, M ^c   Haight, R ^b   Hamilton, C E ^b   Hegelich, B M ^b   Johnson, R P ^b   Merrill, F ^b   Schaumann, G ^a   Schoenberg, K ^b   Schollmeier, M ^c   Shimada, T ^b   Taddeucci, T ^b   Tybo, J L ^b   Wagner, F ^a   Wender, S A ^b   Wilde, C H ^b   Wurden, G A ^b   more..

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION MECHANISMS; COMPACT SOURCES; HIGH ENERGY; INTENSE BEAMS; ION ACCELERATION MECHANISMS; MATERIAL SCIENCE; NEUTRON NUMBER; NEW MECHANISMS; PULSED SOURCE; SECURITY APPLICATION; SHORT-PULSE LASERS;

DEUTERIUM; EXPERIMENTS; NEUTRON SOURCES; TRANSPARENCY;

LASERS;

EID: 84873038840     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.044802     Document Type: Article

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