Resonant heating of a cluster plasma by intense laser light

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 20, 2004, Pages

  Taguchi, Toshihiro ^a,b   Antonsen Jr , Thomas M ^a   Milchberg, Howard M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b SETSUNAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ARGON; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES; ELECTROMAGNETISM; ELECTRONS; ELECTROSTATICS; LIGHT ABSORPTION;

ELECTRON-ION SCATTERING; INTENSE LASER LIGHT; PARTICLE-IN-CELL; RESONANT HEATING;

LASER BEAMS;

EID: 18544398068     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.205003     Document Type: Article

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