Laser wakefield electron acceleration on Texas petawatt facility: Towards multi-GeV electron energy in a single self-guided stage

High Energy Density Physics

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 200-206

  Kalmykov, S Y ^a   Reed, S A ^a   Yi, S A ^a   Beck, A ^b   Lifschitz, A F ^c   Davoine, X ^b   Lefebvre, E ^b   Khudik, V ^a   Shvets, G ^a   Dong, P ^a   Wang, X ^a   Du, D ^a   Bedacht, S ^a   Zhao, Y ^a   Henderson, W ^a   Bernstein, A ^a   Dyer, G ^a   Martinez, M ^a   Gaul, E ^a   Ditmire, T ^a   Downer, M C ^a   more..

^a University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b DIF   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

Author keywords

Laser wakefield acceleration; Particle in cell simulations; Petawatt laser; Relativistic self focusing

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950925548     PISSN: 15741818     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hedp.2009.11.002     Document Type: Article

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