Resonant heating of a cluster plasma by intense laser light

Physics of Plasmas

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1-8

  Antonsen Jr , Thomas M ^a   Taguchi, Toshihiro ^a,c   Gupta, Ayush ^a   Palastro, John ^a   Milchberg, Howard M ^b  

^a The Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics   (United States)

^b Bldg 142   (United States)

^c SETSUNAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER PLASMAS; PARTICLE IN CELL (PIC) APPROXIMATION; RESONANT HEATING; SOLID DENSITY;

ALGORITHMS; ARGON; CHARGED PARTICLES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; HARMONIC GENERATION; HYDRODYNAMICS; PLASMA HEATING; RESONANCE; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

PLASMAS;

EID: 20844441284     PISSN: 1070664X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1869500     Document Type: Conference Paper

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