Filamentation Instability of Ion Beams Focused in Pellet-Fusion Reactors
- 25 September 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 41 (13), 866-870
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.41.866
Abstract
The growth of current filamentation instability is calculated for intense multi-GeV heavy-ion beams focused across a target chamber onto a fusion pellet. Conditions for which this instability growth can be kept small are given.Keywords
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