Scalings for ultrarelativistic laser plasmas and quasimonoenergetic electrons

Physics of Plasmas

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1-11

  Gordienko, S ^a,b   Pukhov, A ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b LANDAU INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRON BEAMS; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; HYDRODYNAMICS; LASER PULSES; MAXWELL EQUATIONS;

HIGH-ENERGY ACCELERATORS; KINETIC EQUATIONS; LASER PLASMA INTERACTIONS; LASER-PLASMA ELECTRON ACCELERATION;

PLASMAS;

EID: 20844454393     PISSN: 1070664X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1884126     Document Type: Article

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