Modeling laser wake field acceleration with the Quasi-static PIC code QuickPIC

AIP Conference Proceedings

Volumn 877, Issue , 2006, Pages 235-240

  Vieira, J ^a,c   Tzoufras, M ^a   Huang, C ^a   Lu, W ^a   Zhou, M ^a   Tsung, F ^a   Decyk, V K ^a   Mori, W B ^a   Antonsen Jr , T ^b   Cooley, J ^b   Silva, L O ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Laser wakefield acceleration; Particle in cell method; Quasi static

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847058490     PISSN: 0094243X     EISSN: 15517616     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2409140     Document Type: Conference Paper

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