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Fast ignition by intense laser-accelerated proton beams by Roth, M, Cowan, T E, Key, M H, Hatchett, S P, Brown, C, Fountain, W, Johnson, J, Pennington, D M, Snavely, R A, Wilks, S C, Yasuike, K, Ruhl, H, Pegoraro, F, Bulanov, S V, Campbell, E M, Perry, M D, Powell, H

“…The concept of fast ignition with inertial confinement fusion (ICF) is a way to reduce the energy required for ignition and burn and to maximize the gain…”
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Intense high-energy proton beams from Petawatt-laser irradiation of solids by Snavely, R A, Key, M H, Hatchett, S P, Cowan, T E, Roth, M, Phillips, T W, Stoyer, M A, Henry, E A, Sangster, T C, Singh, M S, Wilks, S C, MacKinnon, A, Offenberger, A, Pennington, D M, Yasuike, K, Langdon, A B, Lasinski, B F, Johnson, J, Perry, M D, Campbell, E M

“…An intense collimated beam of high-energy protons is emitted normal to the rear surface of thin solid targets irradiated at 1 PW power and peak intensity…”
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Plasma devices to guide and collimate a high density of MeV electrons by Kodama, R, Sentoku, Y, Chen, Z. L, Kumar, G. R, Hatchett, S. P, Toyama, Y, Cowan, T. E, Freeman, R. R, Fuchs, J, Izawa, Y, Key, M. H, Kitagawa, Y, Kondo, K, Matsuoka, T, Nakamura, H, Nakatsutsumi, M, Norreys, P. A, Norimatsu, T, Snavely, R. A, Stephens, R. B, Tampo, M, Tanaka, K. A, Yabuuchi, T

“…The development of ultra-intense lasers has facilitated new studies in laboratory astrophysics and high-density nuclear science, including laser fusion. Such…”
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Photonuclear fission from high energy electrons from ultraintense laser-solid interactions by Cowan, TE, Hunt, AW, Phillips, TW, Wilks, SC, Perry, MD, Brown, C, Fountain, W, Hatchett, S, Johnson, J, Key, MH, Parnell, T, Pennington, DM, Snavely, RA, Takahashi, Y

“…A new regime of laser-matter interactions in which the quiver motion of plasma electrons is fully relativistic, with energies extending well above the…”
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Experimental Characterization of a Strongly Coupled Solid Density Plasma Generated in a Short-pulse Laser Target Interaction by Gregori, G., Hansen, S. B., Clarke, R., Heathcote, R., Key, M. H., King, J., Klein, R. I., Izumi, N., Mackinnon, A. J., Moon, S. J., Park, H.-S., Pasley, J., Patel, N., Patel, P. K., Remington, B. A., Ryutov, D. D., Shepherd, R., Snavely, R. A., Wilks, S. C., Zhang, B. B., Glenzer, S. H.

“…We have measured high resolution copper Kα spectra from a picosecond high intensity laser produced plasma. By fitting the shape of the experimental spectra…”
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Simulations of electron transport for fast ignition using LSP by Town, R.P.J., Chen, C., Cottrill, L.A., Key, M.H., Kruer, W.L., Langdon, A.B., Lasinski, B.F., Snavely, R.A., Still, C.H., Tabak, M., Welch, D.R., Wilks, S.C.

“…A crucial issue for the viability of the fast ignition approach to inertial fusion energy is the transport of the ignition pulse energy from the critical…”
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K α fluorescence measurement of relativistic electron transport in the context of fast ignition by Stephens, R. B., Snavely, R. A., Aglitskiy, Y., Amiranoff, F., Andersen, C., Batani, D., Baton, S. D., Cowan, T., Freeman, R. R., Hall, T., Hatchett, S. P., Hill, J. M., Key, M. H., King, J. A., Koch, J. A., Koenig, M., MacKinnon, A. J., Lancaster, K. L., Martinolli, E., Norreys, P., Perelli-Cippo, E., Rabec Le Gloahec, M., Rousseaux, C., Santos, J. J., Scianitti, F.

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Petawatt laser system and experiments by Pennington, D.M., Brown, C.G., Cowan, T.E., Hatchett, S.P., Henry, E., Herman, S., Kartz, M., Key, M., Koch, J., MacKinnon, A.J., Perry, M.D., Phillips, T.W., Roth, M., Sangster, T.C., Singh, M., Snavely, R.A., Stoyer, M., Stuart, B.C., Wilks, S.C.

“…We have developed a hybrid Ti:sapphire-Nd:glass laser system that produces more than 1.5 PW of peak power. The system has produced up to 680 J of energy on…”
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The potential of fast ignition and related experiments with a petawatt laser Facility by KEY, M. H, CAMPBELL, E. M, PENNINGTON, D. M, PERRY, M. D, PHILLIPS, T. J, SANGSTER, T. C, SINGH, M. S, SNAVELY, R. A, STOYER, M. A, TSUKAMOTO, M, WHARTON, K. B, WILKS, S. C, COWAN, T. E, HATCHETT, S. P, HENRY, E. A, KOCH, J. A, LANGDON, A. B, LASINSKI, B. F, MACKINNON, A, OFFENBERGER, A. A

“…A model of energy gain induced by fast ignition of thermonuclear burn in compressed deuterium-tritium fuel, is used to show the potential for 300× gain with a…”
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