Direct experimental evidence of back-surface ion acceleration from laser-irradiated gold foils

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 26 I, 2004, Pages

  Allen, Matthew ^a,b   Patel, Pravesh K ^b   Mackinnon, Andrew ^b   Price, Dwight ^b   Wilks, Scott ^b   Morse, Edward ^a  

^a Etcheverry Hall MCI 730   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FULL WIDTH AT HALF MAXIMUM (FWHM); ION ACCELERATION; LASER PLASMA INTERACTION; PARTICLE IN CELL (PIC) SIMULATIONS; PROTON ACCELERATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DENSITY (OPTICAL); ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTROSTATICS; GOLD; HEAT RADIATION; ION BEAMS; LASER BEAM EFFECTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METAL FOIL; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; PLASMA INTERACTIONS; PROTON BEAMS; SPUTTERING; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 42749104156     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.265004     Document Type: Article

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