High energy particle acceleration by high-power laser

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5482, Issue , 2004, Pages 39-45

  Kawata, Shigeo ^a   Miyazaki, Shuji ^a   Kong, Qing ^a   Miyauchi, Koichi ^a   Limpouch, Jiri ^b   Andreev, Aleksandar A ^c  

^a UTSUNOMIYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CZECH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

^c INSTITUTE FOR LASER PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Electron beam; Electron trapping; Laser acceleration; Ponderomotive force

Indexed keywords

DAMPING; ELECTRONS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; VACUUM APPLICATIONS;

ELECTRON TRAPPING; LASER ACCELERATION; PARTICLE ACCELERATION; PONDERMOTIVE FORCE;

HIGH POWER LASERS;

EID: 3543140551     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.558603     Document Type: Conference Paper

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