Inertial confinement fusion systems using heavy ion accelerators as drivers

Conference · Sat Mar 01 04:00:00 EST 1980

OSTI ID:5361656

Herrmannsfeldt, W B; Godlove, T F; Keefe, D

Heavy ion accelerators are the most recent entrants in the effort to identify a practical driver for inertial confinement fusion. They are of interest because of the expected efficient coupling of ion kinetic energy to the thermal energy needed to implode the pellet and because of the good electrical efficiency of high intensity particle accelerators. The beam intensities required, while formidable, lie within the range that can be studied by extensions of the theories and the technology of modern high energy accelerators.

• Research Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, CA (USA); Department of Energy, Washington, DC (USA); California Univ., Berkeley (USA). Lawrence Berkeley Lab.
• DOE Contract Number: AC03-76SF00515
• OSTI ID: 5361656
• Report Number(s): SLAC-PUB-2490; LBL-10870; CONF-800446-3
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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