Plasma Wakefield Acceleration for Ultrahigh-Energy Cosmic Rays

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 16, 2002, Pages

  Chen, Pisin ^a   Tajima, Toshiki ^b   Takahashi, Yoshiyuki ^c  

^a SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^b JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAM PLASMA INTERACTIONS; COSMIC RAYS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; GAMMA RAYS; PLASMA DENSITY; PLASMA WAVES; PLASMAS; WAKES; WHITE NOISE;

CHAPMAN-KOLMOGOROV EQUATION; LORENTZ CONTRACTION; PLASMA WAKEFIELD ACCELERATION; ULTRAHIGH-ENERGY COSMIC RAYS;

ACCELERATION;

EID: 0037078734     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.161101     Document Type: Article

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