Experimental study of proton emission from 60-fs, 200-mJ high-repetition-rate tabletop-laser pulses interacting with solid targets

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 67, Issue 4 2, 2003, Pages 464021-464025

  Spencer, I ^a   Ledingham, K W D ^a,b   McKenna, P ^a   McCanny, T ^a   Singhal, R P ^a   Foster, P S ^c   Neely, D ^c   Langley, A J ^c   Divall, E J ^c   Hooker, C J ^c   Clarke, R J ^c   Norreys, P A ^c   Clark, E L ^b   Krushelnick, K ^d   Davies, J R ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b AWE   (United Kingdom)

^c Harwell Science and Innovation Campus   (United Kingdom)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; COPPER; PROTONS; TARGETS;

PROTON EMISSION;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 0037865561     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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