Proton acceleration in the electrostatic sheaths of hot electrons governed by strongly relativistic laser-absorption processes

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

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Ter Avetisyan, S ^a   Schnurer M ^a   Sokollik, T ^a   Nickles, P V ^a   Sandner, W ^a   Reiss, H R ^a   Stein, J ^b,c,e   Habs, D ^c   Nakamura, T ^d   Mima, K ^d  

^a MAX BORN INSTITUT   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON BEAMS; HOT ELECTRONS; LASER BEAM EFFECTS; LASER PULSES;

ELECTROSTATIC SHEATHS; LASER PROPAGATION; PONDEROMOTIVELY; RELATIVISTIC LASER-ABSORPTION PROCESSES;

PARTICLE ACCELERATORS;

EID: 40749098629     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.77.016403     Document Type: Article

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