Surface acceleration of fast electrons with relativistic self-focusing in preformed plasma

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 97, Issue 9, 2006, Pages

  Habara, H ^a   Adumi, K ^a   Yabuuchi, T ^a   Nakamura, T ^a   Chen, Z L ^a   Kashihara, M ^a   Kodama, R ^a   Kondo, K ^a   Kumar, G R ^a,b   Lei, L A ^a   Matsuoka, T ^a,c   Mima, K ^a   Tanaka, K A ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONS; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; PLASMA INTERACTIONS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TARGETS;

BENT ANGLE; FAST ELECTRONS; LASER PLASMA INTERACTIONS; SURFACE ACCELERATION;

PARTICLE ACCELERATORS;

EID: 33748298988     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.095004     Document Type: Article

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