Production of electron-positron pairs by intense laser pulses in an overdense plasma

Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics

Volumn 360, Issue 4-5, 2007, Pages 624-628

  Berezhiani, V I ^a,b   Garuchava, D P ^b   Shukla, P K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Georgia)

^c RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAM PLASMA INTERACTIONS; IONS; LASER PRODUCED PLASMAS; LASER PULSES; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; PLASMA DENSITY; POSITRONS;

CIRCULARLY POLARIZED; ELECTRON ION PLASMA; ELECTRON-POSITRON PAIRS; INTENSE LASER PULSE; LASER-PLASMA INTERACTIONS; ONE-DIMENSIONAL SYSTEMS; OVERDENSE PLASMA; RELATIVISTIC ELECTRON;

ELECTRONS;

EID: 33751200626     PISSN: 03759601     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physleta.2006.08.048     Document Type: Article

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