photon acceleration in superluminous and accelerated lonization fronts

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 316-322

  Oliveira e Silva, L ^a   Mendonca J T ^a  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER CONCENTRATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; ELECTRON BEAMS; LASER PRODUCED PLASMAS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PHOTONS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PACKET; HAMILTONIAN THEORY; PHOTON ACCELERATION; RAY TRACING EQUATIONS;

BEAM PLASMA INTERACTIONS;

EID: 0030124371     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/27.509995     Document Type: Article

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