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9 May 1988 Plasmoids For Exoatmospheric Propagation
A Kadish, R A Nebel, W R Shanahan, P Rosenau
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Proceedings Volume 0873, Microwave and Particle Beam Sources and Propagation; (1988) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.965106
Event: 1988 Los Angeles Symposium: O-E/LASE '88, 1988, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Abstract
The possibility of reducing the rate of density decay in portions of an unconfined plasma by initial profile shaping is analyzed. For transit times of interest to the SDI program, such structuring may result in gains of several orders of magnitude in on-target plasma density.
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A Kadish, R A Nebel, W R Shanahan, and P Rosenau "Plasmoids For Exoatmospheric Propagation", Proc. SPIE 0873, Microwave and Particle Beam Sources and Propagation, (9 May 1988); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.965106
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KEYWORDS
Plasma

Diffusion

Ions

Magnetism

Beam propagation method

Microwave radiation

Particle beams

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