Micro-scale fusion in dense relativistic nanowire array plasmas

Alden Curtis(Colorado State University), J. J. Rocca(Colorado State University), James Tinsley(Nevada National Security Site), Alex Rockwood(Colorado State University), Shoujun Wang(Chinese Academy of Sciences), Vural Kaymak(Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf), A. Pukhov(Forschungszentrum Jülich), Chase Calvi(Colorado State University), Yong Wang(Zhejiang University), Vyacheslav N. Shlyaptsev(Colorado State University), R. Hollinger(Colorado State University)
Nature Communications
March 8, 2018
10.1038/s41467-018-03445-z
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