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Scaling of plasmas, heated and ponderomotively confined by powerful laser radiation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 October 2009

V.V. Korobkin  and
M. Yu. Romanovsky
V.V. Korobkin
Affiliation:
General Physics Institute, Academy of Sciences of Russia, Moscow, 117942, Russia
M. Yu. Romanovsky
Affiliation:
General Physics Institute, Academy of Sciences of Russia, Moscow, 117942, Russia Institute for Physics, Humboldt University, 10099 Berlin, Germany
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Abstract

It is shown that a powerful laser beam is capable of the ponderomotive confinement of plasma with electron density exceeding the critical density for the radiation under review. The theory describing force and heat balances of the plasma together with the propagation of the laser radiation is developed. The laws of the dense plasma scaling for controlled thermonuclear fusion (CTF) and other applications are formulated.

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Research Article
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Laser and Particle Beams , Volume 16 , Issue 2 , June 1998 , pp. 235 - 252
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1998

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