Hot-electron energy coupling in ultraintense laser-matter interaction

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

Volumn 79, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Kemp, A J ^a   Sentoku, Y ^b   Tabak, M ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION MECHANISMS; COUPLING EFFICIENCY; ELECTRON ENERGIES; ELECTRON SPECTRUM; ELECTROSTATIC POTENTIALS; FAST IGNITION; HYDRODYNAMIC RESPONSE; LOW-DENSITY PLASMAS; OTHER APPLICATIONS; PARAMETER REGIMES; PARTICLE SIMULATIONS; PLASMA GRADIENTS; PONDEROMOTIVE SCALING; PREFORMED PLASMA; ULTRAINTENSE LASER-MATTER INTERACTION;

ELECTRON TEMPERATURE; FLUID DYNAMICS; LASER PULSES; LASERS; PLASMAS;

PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS;

EID: 67650169039     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.79.066406     Document Type: Article

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