Enhanced isochoric heating from fast electrons produced by high-contrast, relativistic-intensity laser pulses

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 104, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Perez, F ^a   Gremillet, L ^b   Koenig, M ^a   Baton, S D ^a   Audebert, P ^a   Chahid, M ^a   Rousseaux, C ^b   Drouin, M ^b   Lefebvre, E ^b   Vinci, T ^b   Rassuchine, J ^c   Cowan, T ^c   Gaillard, S A ^c,d,e   Flippo, K A ^d   Shepherd, R ^f  

^a ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

^b DIF   (France)

^c INSTITUTE OF ION BEAM PHYSICS AND MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^f LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BULK TARGETS; COLLISIONAL PARTICLES; DOUBLED PULSE; FAST ELECTRONS; FS LASER PULSE; HIGH CONTRAST; HIGHEST TEMPERATURE; INTENSITY LASERS; ISOCHORIC HEATING; LASER ENERGIES; MASS-LIMITED TARGET; PREFORMED PLASMA; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; X-RAY EMISSION;

COLLISIONAL PLASMAS; HEATING; LASER PULSES; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SPECTRUM ANALYZERS; TARGETS;

PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS;

EID: 77649133550     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.085001     Document Type: Article

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