Dependence on pulse duration and foil thickness in high-contrast-laser proton acceleration

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

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Flacco, A ^a   Sylla, F ^a   Veltcheva, M ^a,b   Carrie M ^c   Nuter, R ^c   Lefebvre, E ^c   Batani, D ^b   Malka, V ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE D OPTIQUE APPLIQUÉE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^c DIF   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLING PARAMETERS; DEBYE LENGTH; DENSITY GRADIENTS; DENSITY PROFILE; EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS; FOIL THICKNESS; FRONT SURFACES; HIGH CONTRAST; HIGH INTENSITY; LASER ABSORPTION; LASER INTENSITIES; LASER PULSE DURATION; ORDER OF MAGNITUDE; PARTICLE-IN-CELL SIMULATIONS; PROTON ACCELERATION; PROTON ENERGY; PULSE DURATIONS; SHORT LASER PULSE; TARGET SURFACE; TWO-REGIME;

ACCELERATION; HOT ELECTRONS; LASER PULSES; PROTONS; TARGETS; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS;

EID: 77949418006     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.81.036405     Document Type: Article

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