Measurements of the critical power for self-injection of electrons in a laser wakefield accelerator

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 103, Issue 21, 2009, Pages

  Froula, D H ^a   Clayton, C E ^b   Doppner T ^a   Marsh, K A ^b   Barty, C P J ^a   Divol, L ^a   Fonseca, R A ^d   Glenzer, S H ^a   Joshi, C ^b   Lu, W ^b   Martins, S F ^d   Michel, P ^a   Mori, W B ^b   Palastro, J P ^a   Pollock, B B ^a,c   Pak, A ^b   Ralph, J E ^a,b   Ross, J S ^a,c   Siders, C W ^a   Silva, L O ^d   Wang, T ^b   more..

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGE MEASUREMENTS; CRITICAL POWER; ENERGY GAIN; LASER POWER; LASER WAKEFIELD ACCELERATION; LASER WAKEFIELD ACCELERATORS; PARTICLE-IN-CELL SIMULATIONS; PLASMA LENGTH; RELATIVISTIC SELF FOCUSING; SCALINGS;

PARTICLE BEAM INJECTION; PLASMA ACCELERATORS; PLASMA DENSITY;

LASERS;

EID: 70450205582     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.215006     Document Type: Article

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