Relativistic quasimonoenergetic positron jets from intense laser-solid interactions

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Chen, Hui ^a   Wilks, S C ^a   Meyerhofer, D D ^b,c   Bonlie, J ^a   Chen, C D ^a   Chen, S N ^a   Courtois, C ^d   Elberson, L ^a   Gregori, G ^e   Kruer, W ^a   Landoas, O ^d   Mithen, J ^e   Myatt, J ^b   Murphy, C D ^e   Nilson, P ^b   Price, D ^a   Schneider, M ^a   Shepherd, R ^a   Stoeckl, C ^b   Tabak, M ^a   Tommasini, R ^a   Beiersdorfer, P ^a   more..

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^d DIF   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR AND ENERGY DISTRIBUTIONS; ANGULAR DIVERGENCE; ENERGY DISTRIBUTIONS; GOLD TARGET; INTENSE LASER; LASER CONDITIONS; PICOSECOND DURATION; POSITRON ENERGY; SHEATH ELECTRIC FIELD;

ANGULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRIC POWER DISTRIBUTION; ENERGY CONVERSION; POSITRONS; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; TARGETS;

ELECTRONS;

EID: 77954307700     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.015003     Document Type: Article

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