Multibeam effects on fast-electron generation from two-plasmon-decay instability

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 23, 2003, Pages

  Stoeckl, C ^a   Bahr, R E ^a   Yaakobi, B ^a   Seka, W ^a   Regan, S P ^a   Craxton, R S ^a   Delettrez, J A ^a   Short, R W ^a   Myatt, J ^a   Maximov, A V ^a   Baldis, H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAM PLASMA INTERACTIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRONS; INERTIAL CONFINEMENT FUSION; LASER BEAMS; PLASMA DENSITY; RAMAN SCATTERING; X RAYS;

ELECTRON-TARGET INTERACTIONS; FAST ELECTRON GENERATION; MULTIBEAM EFFECTS; STIMULATED RAMAN SCATTERING; SUPRATHERMAL ELECTRONS; TWO PLASMON DECAY INSTABILITY;

PLASMA STABILITY;

EID: 0042311387     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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