Intense high-energy proton beams from petawatt-laser irradiation of solids

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 14, 2000, Pages 2945-2948

  Snavely, R A ^a,b   Key, M H ^a   Hatchett, S P ^a   Cowan, I E ^a   Roth, M ^c   Phillips, T W ^a   Stoyer, M A ^a   Henry, E A ^a   Sangster, T C ^a   Singh, M S ^a   Wilks, S C ^a   MacKinnon, A ^a   Offenberger, A ^d   Pennington, D M ^a   Yasuike, K ^e   Langdon, A B ^a   Lasinski, B F ^a   Johnson, J ^f   Perry, M D ^a   Campbell, E M ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c GSI HELMHOLTZZENTRUM FÜR SCHWERIONENFORSCHUNG GMBH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^e OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER CONCENTRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GOLD; INTERFEROMETRY; IONIZING RADIATION; IRRADIATION; LASER BEAMS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SOLIDS;

CHIRPED PULSE AMPLIFICATION LASER TECHNOLOGY; HIGH ENERGY PROTON BEAMS; RADIOCHROMIC FILM;

PROTONS;

EID: 20644451203     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.2945     Document Type: Article

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