High-intensity laser-driven proton acceleration: Influence of pulse contrast

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 364, Issue 1840, 2006, Pages 711-723

  Mckenna, Paul ^a   Lindau, Filip ^b   Lundh, Olle ^b   Neely, David ^c   Persson, Anders ^b   Wahlström, Claes Göran ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^b LUND INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c Harwell Science and Innovation Campus   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Laser particle acceleration; Laser plasma interactions; Proton beam

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645295253     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2005.1733     Document Type: Review

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