Laser and Particle Beams
- Laser and Particle Beams / Volume 3 / Issue 01 / February 1985, pp 41-49
- Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1985
- DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0263034600001257 (About DOI), Published online: 09 March 2009
Research Article
Heavy ion inertial fusion: Interface between target gain, accelerator phase space and reactor beam transport revisited
W. A. Barlettaa1, W. M. Fawleya1, D. L. Judda1†, J. W-K. Marka1 and S. S. Yua1‡
a1 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 94550, U.S.A.
Abstract
Recently revised estimates of target gain have added additional optimistic inputs to the interface between targets, accelerators and fusion chamber beam transport. But it remains valid that neutralization of the beams in the fusion chamber is useful if ion charge state Z > 1 or if > 1 kA per beamlet is to be propagated. Some engineering and economic considerations favor higher currents.
(Received July 25 1984)
Footnotes
† Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, U.S.A.
‡ Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford, CA, 94305, U.S.A.
