Beam Requirements for Light-Ion-Driven Inertial-Confinement Fusion.

Abstract

Pulsed-power and ion-beam production and handling techniques are available to assemble a break-even Inertial-confinement-fusion (ICF) experiment. In this report, simple scaling laws for beam focusing, transport, bunching and packing are combined to define an acceptable range of parameters for ignition-system modules delivering low-atomic-number (less than or approximately equal to 6) ion beams to a pellet. Techniques for increasing the deliverable beam intensity are then discussed. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 27, 1980
Accession Number
ADA092472

Entities

People

  • Deane F. Mosher
  • Dennis G. Colombant
  • Shyke A. Goldstein

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Corporations
  • Electric Fields
  • Energy
  • Generators
  • Ignition Systems
  • Ion Beams
  • Ions
  • Magnetic Fields
  • Military Research
  • Naval Operations
  • Navy
  • Power
  • Proton Beams
  • Pulsed Power
  • Scaling Laws
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Universities

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Pulsed Power and Plasma Physics.
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