@article{803eb083e68d4dc78c636f7ff0674715,
title = "A review of the U.S. Department of Energy's Inertial Fusion Energy program",
abstract = "This is the final report of a panel set up by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Committee (FESAC) in response to a charge letter from Dr. Ray Orbach (Appendix A). In that letter, Dr. Orbach asked FESAC for {"}an assessment of the present status of{"} inertial fusion energy (IFE) research carried out in contributing programs. These programs include the heavy ion (HI) beam, the high average power laser (HAPL), and Z-Pinch drivers and associated technologies, including fast ignition (FI). This report, presented to FESAC on March 29, 2004, and subsequently approved by them (Appendix B), presents FESAC's response to that charge.",
keywords = "Fusion energy, Inertial confinement fusion",
author = "Rulon Linford and Riccardo Betti and Jill Dahlburg and James Asay and Michael Campbell and Phillip Colella and Jeffrey Freidberg and Jeremy Goodman and David Hammer and Joseph Hoagland and Steve Jardin and John Lindl and Grant Logan and Keith Matzen and Gerald Navratil and Arthur Nobile and John Sethian and John Sheffield and Mark Tillack and Jon Weisheit",
note = "Funding Information: The relative ease of transport of energetic ions through the low-density plasma surrounding dense fuel, plus the ability to focus these ions have recently motivated FI concepts that employ ions. Limited experiments to date have shown maximum efficiencies of converting the laser energy to energetic ions of only ~10%, but laser-produced ions have already been used for isochoric heating of plasmas to temperatures of order 60–70 eV [16,17]. Much of the research in the generation and applications of petawatt laser produced ions has been funded by an OFES innovative concepts initiative. This new research topic also has attracted significant interest for its other possible applications, such as radiography, compact accelerators, and novel ion sources.",
year = "2003",
month = jun,
doi = "10.1023/B:JOFE.0000036408.11067.cd",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "22",
pages = "93--126",
journal = "Journal of Fusion Energy",
issn = "0164-0313",
publisher = "Springer New York",
number = "2",
}