Ion acceleration regimes in underdense plasmas

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1226-1232

  Pegoraro, Francesco ^a,f   Bulanov, Sergei V ^a,b,c   Califano, Francesco ^a,b,d   Esirkepov, Timur Zh ^a,e   Lisejkina, Tatiana V ^a,b   Naumova, Natalia M ^a,b   Ruhl, Hartmut ^a,b   Vshivkov, Vital A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b INFM   (Italy)

^c PROKHOROV GENERAL PHYSICS INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^d MOSCOW INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS AND TECHNOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^e INSTITUTE OF COMPUTATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES   (Russian Federation)

^f Institute of Computational Technologies of SD RAS ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Coulomb explosion; Ion acceleration; Particle in cell simulation; Relativistic plasmas; Ultraintense laser pulses

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000550703     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/27.893311     Document Type: Article

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