Trapping and acceleration of nonideal injected electron bunches in laser wakefield accelerators

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 33, Issue 2 II, 2005, Pages 712-722

  Hubbard, Richard F ^a   Gordon, Daniel F ^a   Cooley, James H ^a,b,c,d   Hafizi, Bahman ^c   Jones, Theodore G ^a   Kaganovich, Dmitri ^e   Sprangle, Phillip ^a   Ting, Antonio C ^a   Zigler, Arie ^c,f   Dexter, Jason ^a,g  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c ICARUS RESEARCH INC   (United States)

^d LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e LET Corporation   (United States)

^f HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^g OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Accelerators; Laser applications; Optical propagation in plasma media; Pulsed lasers

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION IN PLASMA; ELECTRON BEAMS; FOCUSING; HAMILTONIANS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTICLE BEAM INJECTION; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS;

LASER WAKEFIELD ACCELERATORS; NONIDEAL INJECTION; OPTICAL PROPAGATION IN PLASMA MEDIA;

PARTICLE ACCELERATORS;

EID: 21044439175     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2005.844615     Document Type: Article

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