Ionization induced trapping in a laser wakefield accelerator

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 104, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  McGuffey, C ^a   Thomas, A G R ^a   Schumaker, W ^a   Matsuoka, T ^a   Chvykov, V ^a   Dollar, F J ^a   Kalintchenko, G ^a   Yanovsky, V ^a   Maksimchuk, A ^a   Krushelnick, K ^a   Bychenkov, V Yu ^b   Glazyrin, I V ^c   Karpeev, A V ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b LEBEDEV PHYSICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^c INSTITUTE OF TECHNICAL PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAM DIVERGENCE; ELECTRON DENSITIES; EMITTANCES; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; LASER WAKEFIELD ACCELERATORS; ORDER OF MAGNITUDE; PARTICLE-IN-CELL; TARGET GAS;

ELECTRON BEAMS; ELECTRONS; HELIUM; IONIZATION OF GASES; PARTICLE DETECTORS; PLASMA ACCELERATORS;

DENSITY OF GASES;

EID: 74549212080     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.025004     Document Type: Article

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