Numerical modelling of a 10-cm-long multi-GeV laser wakefield accelerator driven by a self-guided petawatt pulse

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 12, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Kalmykov, S Y ^a   Yi, S A ^a   Beck, A ^b   Lifschitz, A F ^c   Davoine, X ^b   Lefebvre, E ^b   Pukhov, A ^d   Khudik, V ^a   Shvets, G ^a   Reed, S A ^a   Dong, P ^a   Wang, X ^a   Du, D ^a   Bedacht, S ^a   Zgadzaj, R ^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)

^d HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYLINDERS (SHAPES); ELECTRONS; NUMERICAL MODELS; PLASMA ACCELERATORS; PLASMA SIMULATION; WAKES;

3-D PIC SIMULATIONS; CYLINDRICAL GEOMETRY; ELECTRON SELF-INJECTION; EXPERIMENTAL REALIZATIONS; LASER WAKEFIELD ACCELERATORS; NONLINEAR EVOLUTIONS; PARTICLE-IN-CELL CODE; THREEDIMENSIONAL (3-D);

GERMANIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 77952652034     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/12/4/045019     Document Type: Article

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