Radiation science using Z-pinch x rays
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Radiation science using Z-pinch x rays J. E. Bailey, G. A. Chandler, D. Cohen, M. E. Cuneo, M. E. Foord, R. F. Heeter, D. Jobe, P. W. Lake, J. J. MacFarlane, T. J. Nash, D. S. Nielson, R. Smelser, and J. Torres Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87185-1196 Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania 19081 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550 K-Tech Corporation, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87185 Prism Computational Science, Madison, Wisconsin 53703
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