Comparison of laser ion acceleration from the front and rear surfaces of thin foils

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 4, 2005, Pages

  Fuchs, J ^a,b,f   Sentoku, Y ^a,f   Karsch, S ^c   Cobble, J ^d   Audebert, P ^b   Kemp, A ^a,f   Nikroo, A ^a   Antici, P ^b   Brambrink, E ^e   Blazevic, A ^e   Campbell, E M ^a   Fernandez J C ^d   Gauthier, J C ^b   Geissel, M ^e   Hegelich, M ^c,d   Pepin H ^b   Popescu, H ^b   Renard LeGalloudec, N ^f   Roth, M ^e   Schreiber, J ^c   Stephens, R ^a   Cowan, T E ^a,f   more..

^a GENERAL ATOMICS   (United States)

^b Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

^d LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRONT-SURFACE ACCELERATION (FSA); LASER ION ACCELERATION; PROTON FLUENCE; THIN FOILS;

ACCELERATION; CHEMICAL ACTIVATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IONS; IRRADIATION; LASER BEAMS; PROTONS; RADIOGRAPHY;

METAL FOIL;

EID: 18044366387     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.045004     Document Type: Article

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