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Nuclear Reaction Diagnostics for Intense Particle Beam Measurements

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Fast Electrical and Optical Measurements

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Intense pulsed ion beams, with kinetic energies ranging from several hundred kilovolts to ten megavolts and current densities ranging from several ten’s of kiloamperes per cm2 to almost one mega-ampere per cm2, have been generated by reflex triode, reflex, triode, reflex pinched, and magnetically insulated ion diodes [1, 2, 3, 4, 5].

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Leeper, R.J. (1986). Nuclear Reaction Diagnostics for Intense Particle Beam Measurements. In: Thompson, J.E., Luessen, L.H. (eds) Fast Electrical and Optical Measurements. NATO ASI Series, vol 108/109. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0445-8_10

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