Mechanisms for Production of Neutron-Emitting Plasma by Subnanosecond Laser-Pulse Heating
- 19 January 1970
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 24 (3) , 92-94
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.24.92
Abstract
One-dimensional numerical calculations have been made of the heating of a thick target of solid-density deuterium by focused subnanosecond pulses of neodymium-glass laser light. The conditions for neutron emission were found to be produced by two different mechanisms. The results are found to be in semiquantitative agreement with recent experimental results.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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