Effect of self-injection on ultraintense laser wake-field acceleration

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

Volumn 69, Issue 3 2, 2004, Pages

  Zhidkov, A ^a   Koga, J ^b   Kinoshita, K ^a   Uesaka, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CHARGE; ELECTRONS; ELECTROSTATICS; IONIZATION; PLASMAS; POLARIZATION; RELATIVITY; WAKES;

PLASMA ELECTRONS; PONDEROMOTIVE POTENTIAL; SELF-INJECTION; WAKE-FIELD ACCELERATION;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 37649029817     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.69.035401     Document Type: Article

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