Generating high-current monoenergetic proton beams by a circularly polarized laser pulse in the phase-stable acceleration regime

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 100, Issue 13, 2008, Pages

  Yan, X Q ^a   Lin, C ^a   Sheng, Z M ^a,b,c   Guo, Z Y ^a   Liu, B C ^a,d   Lu, Y R ^a   Fang, J X ^a   Chen, J E ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

^c SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRONS; IONS; LASER PULSES; PHASE STABILITY;

HIGH-INTENSITY MONOENERGETIC PROTON BEAM; ION ACCELERATION METHOD; LASER WAVELENGTH; POLARIZED LASER PULSE;

PROTON BEAMS;

EID: 41749105752     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.135003     Document Type: Article

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