Accurate modeling of laser-plasma accelerators with particle-in-cell codes

AIP Conference Proceedings

Volumn 877, Issue , 2006, Pages 213-219

  Michel, Estelle ^a   Shadwick, B A ^b,c   Schroeder, C B ^b   Geddes, C G R ^b   Esarey, E ^a,b   Leemans, W P ^a,b   Ruhl, H ^d   Cowan, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Institute for Advanced Physics   (United States)

^d RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Accelerator; Laser; Numericalheating; Particle in cell; Plasma

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847009069     PISSN: 0094243X     EISSN: 15517616     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2409137     Document Type: Conference Paper

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