Production of energetic proton beams with lasers

Review of Scientific Instruments

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2006, Pages

  Malka, V ^a   Faure, J ^a   Fritzler, S ^a   Manclossi, M ^a   Guemnie Tafo, A ^a,b   D'Humires E ^c   Lefebvre, E ^c   Batani, D ^d  

^a ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

^b Varian Medical Systems   (France)

^c CEA DAM DIF   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER PULSES; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

THIN FOIL TARGET;

PROTON BEAMS;

EID: 33645832209     PISSN: 00346748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2170031     Document Type: Conference Paper

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