Laser acceleration of ion bunches at the front surface of overdense plasmas

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 16, 2005, Pages

  Macchi, Andrea ^a   Cattani, Federica ^a   Liseykina, Tatiana V ^a,b   Cornolti, Fulvio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF COMPUTATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLD PLASMAS; ION CHARGE; LASER-PLASMA INTERACTION; PARTICLE-IN-CELL (PIC) SIMULATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DENSITY (OPTICAL); ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRONIC DENSITY OF STATES; LASER PULSES; LIGHT POLARIZATION; PLASMA DENSITY; PLASMA WAVES;

BEAM PLASMA INTERACTIONS;

EID: 18144369712     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.165003     Document Type: Article

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