Observation of strong correlation between quasimonoenergetic electron beam generation by laser wakefield and laser guiding inside a preplasma cavity

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2006, Pages

  Hosokai, Tomonao ^a   Kinoshita, Kenichi ^a   Ohkubo, Takeru ^a   Maekawa, Akira ^a   Uesaka, Mitsuru ^a   Zhidkov, Alexei ^b   Yamazaki, Atsushi ^c   Kotaki, Hideyuki ^d   Kando, Masaki ^d   Nakajima, Kazuhisa ^d   Bulanov, Sergei V ^d   Tomassini, Paolo ^e   Giulietti, Antonio ^e   Giulietti, Danilo ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^e CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER WAKEFIELDS; PICOSECOND LASER PREPULSES; PREPLASMA CAVITY; QUASIMONOENERGETIC ELECTRON BEAM GENERATION;

CORRELATION METHODS; ELECTRONS; LASER APPLICATIONS; PLASMA DENSITY; PLASMAS; WAKES;

ELECTRON BEAMS;

EID: 33645021592     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.73.036407     Document Type: Article

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