Acceleration of high-quality, well-collimated return beam of relativistic electrons by intense laser pulse in a low-density plasma

Laser and Particle Beams

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 307-314

  Baiwen, L I ^a,b   Ishiguro, S ^a   Skoric M M ^c   Takamaru, H ^d   Sato, T ^e  

^a GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF APPLIED PHYSICS AND COMPUTATIONAL MATHEMATICS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^d CHUBU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Electron acceleration; Particle simulation; Relativistic laser plasmas

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; INERTIAL CONFINEMENT FUSION; LASER PULSES; PHOTONS; PLASMAS;

ELECTRON ACCELERATION; PARTICLE SIMULATION; RELATIVISTIC LASER-PLASMAS; THERMAL ENERGY SPECTRA;

ELECTRON BEAMS;

EID: 10044281479     PISSN: 02630346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0263034604223151     Document Type: Conference Paper

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