Accelerating monoenergetic protons from ultrathin foils by flat-top laser pulses in the directed-Coulomb-explosion regime

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Bulanov, S S ^a,b   Brantov, A ^c   Bychenkov, V Yu ^c   Chvykov, V ^a   Kalinchenko, G ^a   Matsuoka, T ^a   Rousseau, P ^a   Reed, S ^a   Yanovsky, V ^a   Litzenberg, D W ^a   Krushelnick, K ^a   Maksimchuk, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^c LEBEDEV PHYSICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ATOMS; ELECTRIC CHARGE; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRIC POWER PLANTS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD THEORY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; LASER BEAMS; LASERS; PROTONS; SEPARATION;

BEAM SHAPING; CHARGE SEPARATION; COULOMB EXPLOSION; DOUBLE LAYERS; FLAT-TOP; FLAT-TOP BEAMS; LASER BEAM SHAPING; LONGITUDINAL FIELDS; MONO-ENERGETIC PROTONS; PROTON ACCELERATION; PULSE-PROPAGATION; SOLID TARGETS;

PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS;

EID: 50249179145     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.78.026412     Document Type: Article

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