Energetic heavy-ion and proton generation from ultraintense laser-plasma interactions with solids

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 1654-1657

  Clark, E L ^a,b   Krushelnick, K ^a   Zepf, M ^a   Beg, F N ^a   Tatarakis, M ^a   Machacek, A ^c   Santala, M I K ^a   Watts, I ^a   Norreys, P A ^d   Dangor, A E ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b AWE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC SPACE CHARGE; ELECTRON EMISSION; HEAVY IONS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; PROTONS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

COULOMB EXPLOSION; LASER-SOLID INTERACTIONS; PROTON GENERATION;

LASER PRODUCED PLASMAS;

EID: 18544397391     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.1654     Document Type: Article

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