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Computer experiments and theoretical arguments suggest that ions in a laser heated plasma can be heated directly by laser induced plasma instabilities. This may explain the large neutron yields seen in some experiments involving the focusing of nanosecond laser pulses onto solid deuterium targets.
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Bodner et al. (1973) studied this question.
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