Spectral shaping of laser generated proton beams

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 10, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Pfotenhauer, S M ^a   Jackel O ^a   Sachtleben, A ^a   Polz, J ^a   Ziegler, W ^a   Schlenvoigt, H P ^a   Amthor, K U ^a   Kaluza, M C ^a   Ledingham, K W D ^b   Sauerbrey, R ^c   Gibbon, P ^d   Robinson, A P L ^e   Schwoerer, H ^f  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE OF ION BEAM PHYSICS AND MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^e Science and Technology Facilities Council   (United Kingdom)

^f STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABLATION; BEAM PLASMA INTERACTIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC POWER PLANTS; ION BEAMS; ION BOMBARDMENT; LASER ABLATION; LASERS; PARTICLE ACCELERATOR ACCESSORIES; PARTICLE BEAMS; PROTONS; SCALING LAWS; TARGETS;

ENERGY DISTRIBUTIONS; ENERGY SPREADS; FUTURE APPLICATIONS; LASER ENERGIES; LASER GENERATED PROTON BEAMS; LASER PARTICLE ACCELERATION; LONG TIME; MONOENERGETIC; NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; PEAK POSITIONS; PROOF OF PRINCIPLE EXPERIMENTS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SPECTRA (CO); SPECTRAL SHAPING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS (IGC: E4/K7);

PULSED LASER DEPOSITION;

EID: 46249093119     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/10/3/033034     Document Type: Article

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