Evidence of photon acceleration by laser wake fields

Physics of Plasmas

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2006, Pages

  Murphy, C D ^a,b   Trines, R ^a   Vieira, J ^c   Reitsma, A J W ^d   Bingham, R ^a,d   Collier, J L ^a   Divall, E J ^a   Foster, P S ^a   Hooker, C J ^a   Langley, A J ^a   Norreys, P A ^a   Fonseca, R A ^c,f   Fiuza, F ^c   Silva, L O ^c   Mendona J T ^c   Mori, W B ^e   Gallacher, J G ^d   Viskup, R ^d   Jaroszynski, D A ^d   Mangles, S P D ^b   Thomas, A G R ^b   Krushelnick, K ^b   Najmudin, Z ^b   more..

^a RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^d UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f INSTITUTO UNIVERSITÁRIO DE LISBOA ISCTE IUL   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER WAKE FIELDS; PHOTON ACCELERATION; SPECTRAL PEAK; WAVE KINETICS;

ACCELERATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; LASER APPLICATIONS; PHOTONS; PLASMAS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; WAKES;

PARTICLE ACCELERATORS;

EID: 33645670806     PISSN: 1070664X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2178650     Document Type: Article

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