Laser-Generated Ultrashort Multimegagauss Magnetic Pulses in Plasmas

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 22, 2002, Pages

  Sandhu, A S ^a   Dharmadhikari, A K ^a   Rajeev, P P ^a   Kumar, G R ^a   Sengupta, S ^b   Das, A ^b   Kaw, P K ^b  

^a TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

^b INSTITUTE FOR PLASMA RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DAMPING; IONIZATION; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; PLASMA CONFINEMENT; PLASMA TURBULENCE;

HOT ELECTRON CURRENTS;

ULTRASHORT PULSES;

EID: 4244183766     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.225002     Document Type: Article

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