One-to-one full-scale simulations of laser-wakefield acceleration using QuickPIC

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 36, Issue 4 PART 4, 2008, Pages 1722-1727

  Vieira, Jorge ^a   Fiúza, Frederico ^a   Fonseca, Ricardo A ^a,b   Silva, Luís O ^a   Huang, C K ^c   Lu, Wei ^c   Tzoufras, Michail ^c   Tsung, F S ^c   Decyk, Viktor ^c   Mori, Warren B ^c   Cooley, J ^d   Antonsen Jr , Thomas ^d  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO UNIVERSITÁRIO DE LISBOA ISCTE IUL   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Electron accelerators; Lasers; Plasma waves; Simulation

Indexed keywords

CODES (STANDARDS); CODES (SYMBOLS); CRACK PROPAGATION; ELECTRON BEAMS; ELECTRON OPTICS; KETONES; LASER BEAMS; LASER FUSION; LASER PULSES; LASERS; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MODULATION; PARTICLE BEAMS; PLASMA ACCELERATORS; PLASMA DIAGNOSTICS; PLASMAS; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; SIGNAL INTERFERENCE;

ELECTRON ACCELERATORS; ELECTRON-BEAM; EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; LASER AND PLASMA; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; PARTICLE-IN-CELL CODES; PIC SIMULATIONS; PLASMA CHANNELS; PLASMA WAVES; QUALITATIVE AGREEMENT; QUASI-STATIC; SIMULATION; WAKE FIELDS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION IN PLASMA;

EID: 50249138317     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2008.927429     Document Type: Article

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