Self-Organizing GeV, Nanocoulomb, Collimated Proton Beam from Laser Foil Interaction at 7×1021W/cm2

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 103, Issue 13, 2009, Pages

  Yan, X Q ^a,b   Wu, H C ^a   Sheng, Z M ^c,d   Chen, J E ^b   Meyer Ter Vehn, J ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

^d SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2D PARTICLE-IN-CELL SIMULATIONS; CIRCULAR POLARIZED; DRIVING PULSE; GAUSSIAN TRANSVERSE; LASER LIGHTS; LASER PARAMETERS; PROTON ACCELERATION; SELF ORGANIZING;

CELL MEMBRANES; HYDROGEN; LASERS; PROTONS;

PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS;

EID: 70349451325     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.135001     Document Type: Article

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