Initial Results From the Newly Upgraded LTX-β

Elliott, Drew; Anderson, Jay; Bell, Ronald E.; Biewer, Theodore M.; Boyle, Dennis P.; Donovan, David; Hansen, Christopher; Hughes, Paul; Kaita, Robert; Koel, Bruce; Kubota, Shigeyuki; Lunsford, Robert; Maan, Anurag; Majeski, Richard; Scotti, Filippo; Soukhanovskii, Vsevolod; Zakharov, Leonid

doi:10.1109/TPS.2020.2983854

Title: Initial Results From the Newly Upgraded LTX-β

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^[1]; Anderson, Jay ^[2]; Bell, Ronald E. ^[3];

^[1]; Boyle, Dennis P. ^[3];

^[4];

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^[3]; Kaita, Robert ^[4]; Koel, Bruce ^[6];

^[7]; Lunsford, Robert ^[3];

^[4]; Majeski, Richard ^[3]; Scotti, Filippo ^[8]; Soukhanovskii, Vsevolod ^[8];

^[9]

Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States)
Princeton Plasma Physics Lab. (PPPL), Princeton, NJ (United States)
Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)
Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA (United States)
Princeton Univ., NJ (United States)
Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States)
Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
LiWFusion, Princeton, New Jersey (United States)

Publication Date:: Tue Apr 14 00:00:00 EDT 2020

Research Org.:: Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Science (SC); USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)

OSTI Identifier:: 1617777

Alternate Identifier(s):: OSTI ID: 1649529; OSTI ID: 1883007

Report Number(s):: LLNL-JRNL-839061
Journal ID: ISSN 0093-3813; TRN: US2106758

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05-00OR22725; AC52-07NA27344; AC02-09CH11466; SC0019308; SC0019239

Resource Type:: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 48; Journal Issue: 6; Journal ID: ISSN 0093-3813

Publisher:: IEEE

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY; Particle beams; Lithium; Plasmas; Particle beam measurements; Temperature measurement; Particle beam injection; Plasma measurements

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                    Elliott, Drew, Anderson, Jay, Bell, Ronald E., Biewer, Theodore M., Boyle, Dennis P., Donovan, David, Hansen, Christopher, Hughes, Paul, Kaita, Robert, Koel, Bruce, Kubota, Shigeyuki, Lunsford, Robert, Maan, Anurag, Majeski, Richard, Scotti, Filippo, Soukhanovskii, Vsevolod, and Zakharov, Leonid. Initial Results From the Newly Upgraded LTX-β.  United States: N. p., 2020. 
Web.  doi:10.1109/TPS.2020.2983854.

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                    Elliott, Drew, Anderson, Jay, Bell, Ronald E., Biewer, Theodore M., Boyle, Dennis P., Donovan, David, Hansen, Christopher, Hughes, Paul, Kaita, Robert, Koel, Bruce, Kubota, Shigeyuki, Lunsford, Robert, Maan, Anurag, Majeski, Richard, Scotti, Filippo, Soukhanovskii, Vsevolod, & Zakharov, Leonid. Initial Results From the Newly Upgraded LTX-β.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1109/TPS.2020.2983854

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                    Elliott, Drew, Anderson, Jay, Bell, Ronald E., Biewer, Theodore M., Boyle, Dennis P., Donovan, David, Hansen, Christopher, Hughes, Paul, Kaita, Robert, Koel, Bruce, Kubota, Shigeyuki, Lunsford, Robert, Maan, Anurag, Majeski, Richard, Scotti, Filippo, Soukhanovskii, Vsevolod, and Zakharov, Leonid. Tue .  
"Initial Results From the Newly Upgraded LTX-β".  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1109/TPS.2020.2983854.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1617777.

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  title        = {Initial Results From the Newly Upgraded LTX-β},

  author       = {Elliott, Drew and Anderson, Jay and Bell, Ronald E. and Biewer, Theodore M. and Boyle, Dennis P. and Donovan, David and Hansen, Christopher and Hughes, Paul and Kaita, Robert and Koel, Bruce and Kubota, Shigeyuki and Lunsford, Robert and Maan, Anurag and Majeski, Richard and Scotti, Filippo and Soukhanovskii, Vsevolod and Zakharov, Leonid},

  abstractNote = {},

  doi          = {10.1109/TPS.2020.2983854},

  journal      = {IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science},

  number       = 6,

  volume       = 48,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {Tue Apr 14 00:00:00 EDT 2020},

  month        = {Tue Apr 14 00:00:00 EDT 2020}

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