Monoenergetic electron beam generation in a laser-driven plasma acceleration

Laser Physics Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 79-85

  Adachi, M ^a   Miura, E ^b   Kato, S ^b   Koyama, K ^b   Masuda, S ^c   Watanabe, T ^d   Ogata, A ^e   Okamoto, H ^a   Tanimoto, M ^f  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^d UTSUNOMIYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f MEISEI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acceleration length; Electron trapping; Intense laser pulse; Monoenergetic electron beam; Particle acceleration; Wakefield

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847349529     PISSN: 16122011     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lapl.200510070     Document Type: Article

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