Envelope equations and conservation laws describing wakefield generation and electron acceleration

Physics of Plasmas

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 766-770

  Cairns, R A ^a   Reitsma, A ^b   Bingham, R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^c RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ELECTROSTATICS; ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENERGY TRANSFER; LASER PULSES; LIGHT ABSORPTION; PHOTONS; PLASMA DENSITY; POISSON EQUATION; RAY TRACING; WAVE EQUATIONS;

ENERGY BALANCE EQUATIONS; PLASMA WAKE;

LASER PRODUCED PLASMAS;

EID: 1242264783     PISSN: 1070664X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1638753     Document Type: Article

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