Megagauss magnetic field generation and plasma jet formation on solid targets irradiated by an ultraintense picosecond laser pulse

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 112-115

  Borghesi, M ^a   MacKinnon, A J ^a   Bell, A R ^a   Gaillard, R ^a   Willi, O ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0001394970     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.81.112     Document Type: Article

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