Effects of plasma density on relativistic self-injection for electron laser wake-field acceleration

Physics of Plasmas

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 5379-5386

  Zhidkov, A ^a,d   Koga, J ^b   Hosokai, T ^c   Kinoshita, K ^a   Uesaka, M ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d PROKHOROV GENERAL PHYSICS INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON BEAMS; ELECTRON TRAPS; ELECTRONS; HYDRODYNAMICS; LASER APPLICATIONS; LASER PULSES; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; WAKES;

ELECTRON LASER; ELECTRON QUIVER ENERGY; ENERGY DISTRIBUTION; FEMTOSECOND ELECTRON BEAMS; PLASMA ELECTRONS;

PLASMA DENSITY;

EID: 11844262078     PISSN: 1070664X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1807849     Document Type: Article

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