Intense electron and proton beams from Petawatt laser-matter interactions

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

Volumn 455, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 130-139

  Cowan, T E ^a   Roth, M ^a,b   Johnson, J ^c   Brown, C ^a   Christi, M ^c   Fountain, W ^c   Hatchett, S ^a   Henry, E A ^a   Hunt, A W ^d   Key, M H ^a   MacKinnon, A ^a   Parnell, T ^c   Pennington, D M ^a   Perry, M D ^a   Phillips, T W ^a   Sangster, T C ^a   Singh, M ^a   Snavely, R ^a   Stoyer, M ^a   Takahashi, Y ^e   Wilks, S C ^a   Yasuike, K ^f   more..

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b GSI HELMHOLTZZENTRUM FÜR SCHWERIONENFORSCHUNG GMBH   (Germany)

^c NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

^f OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON BEAMS; FISSION REACTIONS; FOCUSING; ION BEAMS; LASER BEAMS; POSITRONS;

PETAWATT LASERS;

HIGH ENERGY LASERS;

EID: 0034324421     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-9002(00)00720-8     Document Type: Article

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