Rapid heating of matter using high power lasers

Bang, Woosuk

doi:10.2172/1225295

Title: Rapid heating of matter using high power lasers

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This report describes rapid heating technology with ion sources. LANL calculated the expected heating per atom and temperatures of the target materials, used alumium ion beams to heat gold and diamond, produced deuterium fusion plasmas and then measured the ion temperature at the time of the fusion reactions.

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Bang, Woosuk ^[1]

Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

Publication Date:: Thu Nov 05 00:00:00 EST 2015

Research Org.:: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE

OSTI Identifier:: 1225295

Report Number(s):: LA-UR-15-28586

DOE Contract Number:: AC52-06NA25396

Resource Type:: Technical Report

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY; 73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS; warm dense matter; laser-cluster fusion

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