Injection and acceleration of quasimonoenergetic relativistic electron beams using density gradients at the edges of a plasma channel

Physics of Plasmas

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Faure, J ^a   Rechatin, C ^a   Lundh, O ^a   Ammoura, L ^a   Malka, V ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE D OPTIQUE APPLIQUÉE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLIDING PULSE; DENSITY GRADIENTS; ELECTRON BEAM DIVERGENCE; EMITTANCES; ENERGY SPREADS; EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; INJECTION PROCESS; LASER WAKEFIELD ACCELERATORS; PLASMA CHANNEL; PULSE DRIVE; QUASI-MONOENERGETIC; QUASI-MONOENERGETIC ELECTRON BEAM; RELATIVISTIC ELECTRON BEAM; WAKE FIELDS; WAVEBREAKING;

ELECTRON BEAMS; ELECTRON OPTICS; ELECTRONS; LASER PULSES; NUCLEAR ENERGY; OCEANOGRAPHY;

PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS;

EID: 77956324793     PISSN: 1070664X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3469581     Document Type: Article

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