Energy Injection for Fast Ignition

Richard B. STEPHENS, Kramer U. AKLI, Teresa BARTAL1), Farhat N. BEG1), Sugreev CHAWLA1), Cliff D. CHEN2), Hui CHEN3), Sophia CHEN1), Bradley CHRISMAN4), Richard R. FREEMAN5), Daniel HEY3), Michael KEY3), Andreas KEMP3), James KING1), Katherine LANCASTER6), Sebastien LePAPE3), Anthony LINK5), Tammy MA1), Andy MACKINNON3), Andrew MACPHEE3), Peter NORREYS6), Dustin OFFERMAN5), Vladimir OVCHINNIKOV5), John PASLEY1), Prav PATEL3), Douglas SCHUMACHER5), Yasuhiko SENTOKU4), Ying TSUI7), Scott WILKS3), Linn Van WOERKOM5), Ming-Sheng WEI1) and Toshinori YABUUCHI1)

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