Acceleration and compression of charged particle bunches using counterpropagating laser beams

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1194-1201

  Shvets, Gennady ^a   Fisch, Nathaniel J ^a   Pukhov, Alexander ^a,b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; FREQUENCIES; LASER BEAMS; LASER PULSES; LASER TUNING; LIGHT VELOCITY; PARTICLE BEAM INJECTION; PLASMA ACCELERATORS; POSITRONS;

CHARGE PARTICLE ACCELERATION; CHARGE PARTICLE BUNCHES; CHARGE PARTICLE COMPRESSION; ELECTRON POSITRON INJECTOR; LASER WAKEFIELD MECHANISM; PHASE VELOCITY; PLASMA WAKES;

BEAM PLASMA INTERACTIONS;

EID: 0034239953     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/27.893306     Document Type: Article

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