Foreword |
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Editors' Preface |
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About the Editors |
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Contributors |
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1 ALPA Introduction |
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1.1 General Aims of This Book |
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1.2 Lasers in Accelerator Development: Some Important Concepts and Milestones |
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1.3 Uniqueness in the Laser Case |
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1.4 Organization of This Book |
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Part I: Laser-Driven Particle Acceleration and Associated Energetic Photon and Neutron Generation: Current Understanding and Basic Capabilities Preamble to Part I |
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2 Laser Wakefield Acceleration of Electrons |
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2.3 The Different Injection Schemes |
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2.4 Electron Bunch Parameters |
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3 Dielectric Laser Acceleration of Electrons |
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3.1 Introduction and Historical Background |
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3.2 Conceptual Outline for an Accelerator on a Chip |
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3.3 Recent Experimental Results |
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3.4 Future Prospects and Conclusions |
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4 Laser-Accelerated Electrons as X-Ray/y-Ray Sources |
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4.2 Radiation by Accelerated Free Electrons |
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4.2.1 Circular Trajectory: Synchrotron Radiation |
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4.2.2 Periodic Deflection: The Undulator |
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4.5 Appendix: Numerical Treatment, a Do-It-Yourself Approach |
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5 Laser-Driven Ion Acceleration |
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5.1.1 Properties of Laser-Accelerated Protons |
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5.1.2 Principles of Ion Acceleration |
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5.2.1 Progress in Proton Energy Enhancement |
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5.2.2 Proton Energy Scaling with Short-Pulse Drivers |
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5.2.3 Progress in Ion Bunch Properties |
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5.3 Ion Acceleration Physics |
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5.3.1 Laser-Plasma Interaction Scenario |
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5.3.2 Target Normal Sheath Acceleration |
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5.3.3 Radiation Pressure Acceleration |
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5.3.4 Collisionless Shock Acceleration |
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5.3.5 Relativistic Transparency and Other Mechanisms |
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5.4 Advanced Optimization Strategies |
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5.4.2 Optical Control and Post-Acceleration |
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5.5 Discussion and Outlook |
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6.1 Introduction to Laser-Driven Neutron Generation |
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6.2.1 Photon-Induced Reactions |
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6.2.3 Ion Beam-Driven Fusion |
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6.2.4 Relativistic Transparency |
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6.4 Recent Experimental Results |
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6.5.1 Fast Neutron Radiography |
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6.5.2 Active Interrogation of Sensitive Nuclear Material |
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6.5.3 Neutron Resonance Spectroscopy |
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6.5.4 On-Site Neutron-Based System Tests |
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6.5.6 DPA and Annealing Research |
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Part II: Applications of Laser-Driven Particle Acceleration Preamble to Part II |
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7 New Tools for Facing New Challenges in Radiation Chemistry |
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7.2 Contribution of Radiation Chemistry |
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7.3 Hot Topics in Radiation Chemistry |
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7.3.1 Probing the Radical Precursors in Water: Water Radical Cation (H2O") and Presolvated Electron |
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7.3.2 Ultrafast Kinetics in High Temperature High Pressure Water |
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7.3.3 Spurs Kinetics with High Linear Energy Transfer |
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7.4 State of the Art of Pulsed Radiolysis Facilities |
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7.4.1 Picosecond Electron Radiolysis in the Low LET Regime |
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7.4.2 Nanosecond Heavy Ion Radiolysis in the High LET Regime |
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7.5 Challenges of Future Laser-Driven Particle Acceleration for Femtosecond Radiolysis |
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8 Application of Laser-Driven Beams for Radiobiological Experiments |
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8.2 Importance of Radiobiology for Understanding Fundamental Processes, Optimization of Radiation Therapy and Determination of Risks Associated with Exposures |
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8.3 Can Laser-Driven Particle Sources Elicit Fundamentally Different Responses as Compared to Conventionally Accelerated Beams? |
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8.4 Laser-Driven Ion Sources as Workhorse for Radiobiological Experiments-State of the Art and Future Requirements |
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8.5 Exploitation of Specific Characteristics of Laser-Driven Beams: Broad Energy Spectrum and Mixed Beams |
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9 Ultra-Fast Opacity in Transparent Dielectrics Induced by Picosecond Bursts of Laser-Driven Ions |
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9.3 Ion Interactions in Matter |
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9.4 Experiment and Methodology: Accessing Ultra-Fast Interactions Using TNSA Proton Bunches |
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9.5 Drude-Type Two-Temperature Model |
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9.6 Results and Discussion |
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10 Using Laser-Driven Ion Sources to Study Fast Radiobiological Processes |
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10.1 Introduction to Clustered DNA Damage |
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10.2 Unknown/Unsolved Issues Associated with Clustered DNA Damage: Fast Processes After Ion Irradiation |
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10.2.2 Characteristic Physical Processes After Ion Irradiation |
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10.3 Advantage of Using Laser-Driven Particle Acceleration |
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10.3.1 Proposed Experimental Setup to Apply Heavy Ion Beams Driven by Intense Lasers |
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10.3.2 Measurement of Clustered Molecules or Holes Using SAXS |
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11 Laser-Driven Ion Beam Radiotherapy (LIBRT) |
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11.2 State of the Art in Radiotherapy |
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11.3 Present Status and Expected Progress in Laser-Driven Ion Beam Irradiation for Radiotherapy Application |
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11.4 Laser-Driven Ion Beam Delivery via Compact Gantry Systems Based on Pulse-Powered Magnets |
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11.5 Tumour Conformal Dose Delivery Approaches and Treatment Planning for Laser-Driven Ion Beams |
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11.6 Summary and Conclusions |
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12 Charged Particle Radiography and Tomographic Imaging |
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183 | (2) |
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12.2 Principles of Particle Imaging and Image Reconstruction |
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12.2.1 Proton Radiography and Computed Tomography |
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12.2.2 Reconstruction of Relative Stopping Power |
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12.2.3 Data Acquisition Modes for Particle Imaging |
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12.2.4 Particle Energy Required for Imaging |
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12.3 Modern-Era Charged Particle Imaging Approaches |
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12.3.1 First Proton Radiography System at PSI |
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12.3.2 First Proton CT System at the Harvard Cyclotron |
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12.3.3 Heavy Ion CT Systems at HIMAC |
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12.3.4 Heavy Ion Radiography and CT Systems Tested at HIT |
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12.3.5 Recent Developments in Tracking Mode-Based Proton Imaging |
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12.3.6 Recent Developments in Integration Mode Proton Imaging |
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12.3.7 Summary of Particle Imaging Approaches |
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12.4 Laser-Accelerated Particles for Imaging |
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12.4.2 Energy, Energy Spread, Time Structure and Biological Effects |
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13 Radioisotope Production and Application |
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13.2 Basic Concepts: Decay, Half-Life and Activity |
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13.3 Nuclear Decay Emission Products |
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13.4 Medical Applications |
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13.5 Production of Radionuclides |
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13.6 Some Examples of Radionuclides Useful for Medical Applications |
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13.7 Differences between Cyclotron Production and Laser Production |
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14 Space Radiation and Its Biological Effects |
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14.1 Introduction: Background and Driving Forces |
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14.2 Radiation Fields in Space |
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14.3 Radiation Fields Inside Spacecraft, on Planetary Surfaces and in the Human Body |
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14.4.1 Basic Mechanisms: DNA Damage and Cellular Radiation Response |
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14.4.2 Non-Targeted Effects |
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14.4.4 Chronic and Late Effects |
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14.5 Ground-Based Research |
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15 Space Irradiation Effects on Solar Cells |
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15.1 Radiation Effects on Semiconductors |
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15.3 Lifetime Prediction Method |
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15.3.1 Space Radiation Environments |
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15.3.2 Irradiation Test Method |
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15.4 Physically Simulating the Space Environment with Ground-Based Laser-Driven Sources |
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15.5 Prospects for Laser-Driven Beams for Evaluation of Space Solar Cells |
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16 Analogy of Laser-Driven Acceleration with Electric Arc Discharge Materials Modification |
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16.2 Conventional Ion Beam Materials Modification Mechanisms |
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16.3 Overview of Electrical Arc Materials Modification |
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16.4 Laser-Driven Acceleration Effects on Materials |
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17 Nuclear Reaction Analysis of Li-Ion Battery Electrodes by Laser-Accelerated Proton Beams |
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261 | (16) |
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17.3 IBA with a Microproton Beam for Active Materials in the LIB Electrodes |
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17.4 Nuclear Reaction Analysis with Particle Emission for Li-Depth Profiling |
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17.5 Application of Laser-Produced Proton Beams for PIGE and Concluding Remarks |
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18 Possible Roles of Broad Energy Distribution in Ion Implantation and Pulsed Structure in Perturbed Angular Distribution Studies |
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18.2 Broad Energy Distribution for Implantation |
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18.2.1 Deep and Uniform Fe Implantation in LiNbO3 |
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18.2.2 Evenly Distributed Nano-Inclusions of Noble Metals in Thermoelectric Materials |
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18.3 Pulsed Structure for Perturbed Angular Distribution |
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18.3.1 Essential Basics of PAD |
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18.3.2 PAD with Laser-Accelerated Ions: Exploratory Example |
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19 A Compact Proton Linac Neutron Source at RIKEN |
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19.2 RIKEN Accelerator-Driven Compact Neutron Source, RANS |
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19.2.1 Compact Neutron Source Based on a Proton Accelerator |
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19.2.2 Long-Life Be Target |
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19.2.3 RANS Target station, Moderator, Reflector and Radiation Shielding |
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19.3 Applications of RANS: Early Results |
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19.3.1 Visualizing Corrosion in Steel with Low-Energy Neutron Imaging Under the Film Under the Wet-Dry Process |
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19.3.2 Observing Texture Evolution of Steel and the Quantization of an Austenite Phase with Neutron Engineering Diffraction Using RANS |
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19.3.3 Effect of Moderation Time on Instrument Resolution |
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19.3.4 Nondestructive Visualization of the Air Gap and Steel Bar Position Difference in Concrete with Fast Neutron Imaging |
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20 Neutron Science with Highly Brilliant Beams |
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20.3 Neutron Transport and Focusing |
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20.4.1 Determination of the Order Parameter in NiS |
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20.4.2 Measurements of Transverse Acoustic Phonons in Lead |
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20.4.3 Protein Crystallography |
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20.4.4 Diffraction Simulating the Inner Earth |
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20.4.5 Nondestructive 3D Imaging of Elemental Composition |
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20.4.6 Compact Neutron Sources for Nuclear Medicine |
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20.4.7 Application of Montel Optics for Thin Film Research |
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21 'Fission-Fusion': Novel Laser-Driven Nuclear Reaction Mechanism |
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21.2 Prospects for Laser-Driven Ultra-Dense Ion Bunches: 'Fission-Fusion' Mechanism |
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22 Nuclear Reactions in a Laser-Driven Plasma Environment |
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22.2 Nuclear Reactions in Laser Plasmas |
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22.2.1 Perspectives of Studies at the Extreme Light Infrastructure |
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22.3 Production and Decay Studies of Cosmogenic 26Al in Laser-Induced Plasma: Towards a Nuclear-Astrophysics Laboratory with PW Laser Systems |
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22.4 Laser-Driven De-excitation of 84mRb |
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22.4.1 Excitation of 84mRb in a Plasma |
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23 Advances in Nondestructive Elemental Assaying Technologies |
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23.1 Introduction to Photon Sources in Nonintrusive Inspection |
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353 | (1) |
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23.2 Conventional High Energy X-ray Imaging NII |
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23.3 Overview of New Material Discrimination Technologies for NII |
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23.3.1 Physical Principles |
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23.3.2 Putting it All Together: The Passport Systems SmartScan3DTM NII |
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23.4 Summary of Existing Bremsstrahlung Photo Source Used in NII |
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359 | (1) |
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23.5 Future of NII: Sources of Nearly Monochromatic High-Energy Photons |
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359 | (3) |
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23.5.1 Examples of Existing Monochromatic MeV Photon Sources |
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23.5.2 Requirements for Monochromatic Sources in NII Applications |
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23.6 In Conclusion: Laser-Driven NII Requirements |
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24.1 Comments on Presented Application Requirements |
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24.2 Prospects for the Laser-Driven Case |
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