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DTRA’s advancements in nuclear and radiological detection
A new, more complex nuclear age has begun. Echoing the tensions of the Cold War amid rapidly evolving nuclear and radiological threats, preparedness in the modern age is a contest of scientific innovation. The Research and Development Directorate (RD) at the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) is charged with winning this contest.
Hiroshi Takahashi
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 20 | Number 4 | December 1991 | Pages 1006-1011
Advanced Energy Conversion/Storage and Exotic Concepts | doi.org/10.13182/FST91-A11946974
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Two kinds of tunable coherent photons for positronium formation and annihilation can be generated by coalescing focused, high-intensity e and e+ beams which are accelerated in the same direction. Positronium formation can be enhanced by laser irradiation or by installing an undulator magnetic field in cases where the density of e and e+ plasma is not high. In the case of very high density, slender rod-type geometry plasma, positronium can be formed by super-radiant, superfluorescence, or amplified, spontaneous emission processes, and a coherent laser can be generated.