Active manipulation of the spatial energy distribution of laser-accelerated proton beams

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 76, Issue 6, 2007, Pages

  Carroll, D C ^a   McKenna, P ^a   Lundh, O ^b   Lindau, F ^b   Wahlstrom C G ^b   Bandyopadhyay, S ^c   Pepler, D ^c   Neely, D ^c   Kar, S ^d   Simpson, P T ^d   Markey, K ^d   Zepf, M ^d   Bellei, C ^e   Evans, R G ^e   Redaelli, R ^f   Batani, D ^f   Xu, M H ^g   Li, Y T ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^d QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^e IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^g INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRRADIATION; LASER PULSES; METAL FOIL; THIN FILMS;

PICOSECOND LASER PULSES; SHARP CIRCULAR BOUNDARY; SMOOTH PROTON BEAMS; SPATIAL ENERGY DISTRIBUTIONS;

PROTON BEAMS;

EID: 37149040964     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.76.065401     Document Type: Article

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