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Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 20 | Number 4 | December 1991 | Pages 1033-1039
Antimatter Energy Sources | doi.org/10.13182/FST91-A11946977
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This paper discusses several issues related to engineering problems of producing, collecting, and storing antiprotons. The paper is intended to complement the four ICENES '91 papers on antimatter annihilation phenomenologics, by highlighting the incentives and payoffs of very efficient use of antiprotons.
