Tree-code simulations of proton acceleration from laser-irradiated wire targets

Physics of Plasmas

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 4032-4040

  Gibbon, P ^a   Beg, F N ^b   Clark, E L ^c   Evans, R G ^c   Zepf, M ^d  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c AWE   (United Kingdom)

^d QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER ENERGY; LORENTZ-MAXWELL EQUATIONS; PARTICLE IN CELL (PIC) SIMULATIONS; TERAWATT LASERS;

ABSORPTION; ACCELERATION; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; ELECTROSTATICS; LASERS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; PHASE SPACE METHODS; PLASMAS; PROTONS; WIRE;

LASER BEAM EFFECTS;

EID: 4344618084     PISSN: 1070664X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1767096     Document Type: Article

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