GeV plasma accelerators driven in waveguides

Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion

Volumn 49, Issue 12 B, 2007, Pages

  Hooker, S M ^a   Brunetti, E ^b   Esarey, E ^c   Gallacher, J G ^b   Geddes, C G R ^c   Gonsalves, A J ^c   Jaroszynski, D A ^b   Kamperidis, C ^d   Kneip, S ^d   Krushelnick, K ^d   Leemans, W P ^c   Mangles, S P D ^d   Murphy, C D ^d,e   Nagler, B ^a   Najmudin, Z ^d   Nakamura, K ^c,f   Norreys, P A ^e   Panasenko, D ^c   Rowlands Rees, T P ^a   Schroeder, C B ^c   S Toth C ^c   Trines, R ^e   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON BEAMS; INTERFEROMETRY; LASER RADIATION; PLASMA DENSITY; WAVEGUIDES;

PLASMA CHANNEL; QUASI MONOENERGETIC ELECTRON BEAMS; TRANSVERSE INTERFEROMETRIC MEASUREMENTS;

PLASMA ACCELERATORS;

EID: 36348929824     PISSN: 07413335     EISSN: 13616587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0741-3335/49/12B/S37     Document Type: Conference Paper

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