Plasma jets driven by ultraintense-laser interaction with thin foils

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 100, Issue 22, 2008, Pages

  Kar, S ^a   Borghesi, M ^a   Bulanov, S V ^b   Key, M H ^c   Liseykina, T V ^d,h   MacChi, A ^e   MacKinnon, A J ^c   Patel, P K ^c   Romagnani, L ^a   Schiavi, A ^f   Willi, O ^g  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF COMPUTATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES   (Russian Federation)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^f SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^g HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^h MPI K   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER BEAMS; LASER PULSES; LASERS; PLASMA (HUMAN); PLASMA ACCELERATORS; PLASMA DEVICES; PLASMA JETS; PLASMAS; PRESSURE; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; PULSED LASER DEPOSITION; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY (APS); EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE; INTERFEROMETRIC MEASUREMENTS; JET FORMATION; LASER INTERACTIONS; PARTICLE IN CELL (PIC) SIMULATIONS; PICOSECONDS; RADIATION PRESSURES; REAR SIDE; SOLID TARGETS; STEEP DENSITY GRADIENTS; TEMPORAL RESOLUTIONS; THIN FOILS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL (2D);

JETS;

EID: 44949169418     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.225004     Document Type: Article

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