Optimizing beam transport in rapidly compressing beams on the neutralized drift compression experiment - II

Anton D. Stepanov; John J. Barnard; Alex Friedman; Erik P. Gilson; David P. Grote; Qing Ji; Igor D. Kaganovich; Arun Persaud; Peter A. Seidl; Thomas Schenkel

doi:10.1016/j.mre.2018.01.001

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