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Matter and Radiation at Extremes
Vol. 4, Issue 5, 055401 (2019)

Fuel-ion diffusion in shock-driven inertial confinement fusion implosions

Hong Sio^1、a), Chikang Li¹, Cody E. Parker¹, Brandon Lahmann¹, Ari Le², Stefano Atzeni³, and Richard D. Petrasso¹

Author Affiliations

¹Plasma Science and Fusion Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA

²Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA

³Dipartimento SBAI, Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza,” Via Antonio Scarpa 14, 00161, Roma, Italy

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Hong Sio, Chikang Li, Cody E. Parker, Brandon Lahmann, Ari Le, Stefano Atzeni, Richard D. Petrasso. Fuel-ion diffusion in shock-driven inertial confinement fusion implosions[J]. Matter and Radiation at Extremes, 2019, 4(5): 055401 Copy Citation Text

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Hong Sio, Chikang Li, Cody E. Parker, Brandon Lahmann, Ari Le, Stefano Atzeni, Richard D. Petrasso. Fuel-ion diffusion in shock-driven inertial confinement fusion implosions[J]. Matter and Radiation at Extremes, 2019, 4(5): 055401

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