Proposed double-layer target for the generation of high-quality laser-accelerated ion beams

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 17, 2002, Pages 175003/1-175003/4

  Esirkepov, T ^a   Bulanov, S V ^b   Nishihara, K ^a   Tajima, T ^b   Pegoraro, F ^c   Khoroshkov, V S ^d   Mima, K ^a   Daido, H ^b   Kato, Y ^b   Kitagawa, Y ^a   Nagai, K ^a   Sakabe, S ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^d INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER CONCENTRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC FIELDS; KINETIC ENERGY; LASER PULSES; PROTON BEAMS;

COULOMB EXPLOSION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL PARTICLE-IN-CELL SIMULATIONS;

ION BEAMS;

ION;

LASER; MAGNETIC AND ELECTROMAGNETIC EQUIPMENT; MEGAVOLTAGE RADIOTHERAPY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

IONS; LASERS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; RADIOTHERAPY, HIGH-ENERGY;

EID: 18744375765     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.175003     Document Type: Article

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