The use of electronic space charge to accelerate, focus, and bunch ions for pellet fusion
- 1 October 1975
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 27 (7) , 380-382
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.88500
Abstract
Theoretical arguments are presented which show that electronic space charge can transfer large amounts of energy to ions while simultaneously focusing and bunching their arrival at a small pellet.Keywords
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