Longitudinal ion acceleration from high-intensity laser interactions with underdense plasma

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 36, Issue 4 PART 4, 2008, Pages 1825-1832

  Willingale, Louise ^a   Mangles, Stuart P D ^a   Nilson, Philip M ^b   Clarke, Robert J ^c   Dangor, Aboobaker E ^a   Kaluza, Malte C ^d   Karsch, Stefan ^e   Lancaster, Katherine L ^c   Mori, Warren B ^f   Schreiber, Jörg ^e,g   Thomas, Alexander G R ^a   Wei, Ming Sheng ^a   Krushelnick, Karl ^h   Najmudin, Zulfikar ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^c Harwell Science and Innovation Campus   (United Kingdom)

^d Institute of Optics and Quantum Electronics   (Germany)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^h UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Ion acceleration; Particle in cell (PIC) simulations; Ultraintense laser pulses

Indexed keywords

LASERS; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; PLASMAS;

ION ACCELERATION; ION ACCELERATIONS; LASER AND PLASMA; LASER INTERACTIONS; PARTICLE-IN-CELL (PIC) SIMULATIONS; ULTRAINTENSE LASER PULSES; UNDERDENSE PLASMAS;

IONS;

EID: 50249129356     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2008.927357     Document Type: Article

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