Highly efficient relativistic-ion generation in the laser-piston regime

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 17, 2004, Pages

  Esirkepov, T ^a,d   Borghesi, M ^b   Bulanov, S V ^a,b,e   Mourou, G ^c   Tajima, T ^a  

^a JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d MOSCOW INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS AND TECHNOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^e PROKHOROV GENERAL PHYSICS INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; FREQUENCIES; ION BEAMS; IONIZATION; LASER PRODUCED PLASMAS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; RELATIVITY;

FAST IONS; ION BEAM GENERATION; LASER ENERGY; LASER PISTONS (LP); RADIATION PRESSURE;

ULTRASHORT PULSES;

EID: 2942520097     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.175003     Document Type: Article

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