Study of relativistic electron beam production and transport in high-intensity laser interaction with a wire target by integrated LSP modeling

Physics of Plasmas

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2008, Pages

  Wei, M S ^a   Solodov, A A ^b   Pasley, J ^a,e   Stephens, R B ^c   Welch, D R ^d   Beg, F N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^c GENERAL ATOMICS   (United States)

^d VOSS SCIENTIFIC   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; ELECTRON BEAMS; FLOW INTERACTIONS; LASER PULSES; LASER TISSUE INTERACTION; LASERS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; NUCLEAR ENERGY; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PLASMA DIAGNOSTICS; PLASMA INTERACTIONS; PLASMAS; TARGETS; WIRE;

FAST ELECTRONS; NUMERICAL STUDIES; SOLID DENSITY PLASMAS;

ELECTRONS;

EID: 50849101022     PISSN: 1070664X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2965149     Document Type: Article

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