Cold injection for electron wakefield acceleration

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 12, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Davoine, X ^a   Beck, A ^a   Lifschitz, A ^c   Malka, V ^b   Lefebvre, E ^a  

^a DIF   (France)

^b LABORATOIRE D OPTIQUE APPLIQUÉE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GERMANIUM COMPOUNDS;

BASIC MECHANISM; COUNTER-PROPAGATING LASER PULSE; LASER WAKEFIELD; LASER WAKEFIELD ACCELERATION; ONE-DIMENSIONAL (1D) MODELS; RELATIVE ENERGIES; TRANSVERSE EFFECTS; WAKEFIELD ACCELERATION;

ELECTRONS;

EID: 77958516921     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/12/9/095010     Document Type: Article

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