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Nuclear Fusion Reactions in Fronts Propagating in Solid DT

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Laser Interaction and Related Plasma Phenomena

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The use of strong shocks in controlled thermonuclear devices was thought about long agol. However, it turns out that a so-called “thermonuclear shock” should have a tremendously high velocity of propagation2. Many means are known which drive strong shocks through matter: high explosives, magnetic fields, electron beams, laser beams. The shock may or may not be followed by some kind of rarefaction.

Presented at the Third Workshop on “Laser Interaction and Related Plasma Phenomena” held at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, August 13–17, 1973.

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  1. Centre d’Etudes de Limeil, Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique, BP n ° 27, 94190, Villeneuve-Saint-Georges, France

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  1. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA

    Helmut J. Schwarz (Professor of Physics) & Heinrich Hora (Adjunct Associate Professor of Physics) (Professor of Physics) &  (Adjunct Associate Professor of Physics)

  2. Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik, Garching, Germany

    Heinrich Hora (Adjunct Associate Professor of Physics) (Adjunct Associate Professor of Physics)

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Bobin, J.L. (1974). Nuclear Fusion Reactions in Fronts Propagating in Solid DT. In: Schwarz, H.J., Hora, H. (eds) Laser Interaction and Related Plasma Phenomena. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-8416-8_4

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