Mono-energetic ion beam acceleration in solitary waves during relativistic transparency using high-contrast circularly polarized short-pulse laser and nanoscale targets

Physics of Plasmas

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Yin, L ^a   Albright, B J ^a   Jung, D ^b   Bowers, K J ^a   Shah, R C ^a   Palaniyappan, S ^a   Fernndez, J C ^a   Hegelich, B M ^a,b  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC THEORY; BEAM ACCELERATION; CIRCULARLY POLARIZED; CIRCULARLY POLARIZED LASERS; DIAMOND-LIKE CARBON; HIGH CONTRAST; ION ACCELERATIONS; KINETIC SIMULATION; LASER AND PLASMA; LASER FACILITIES; NANO SCALE; QUASI-MONOENERGETIC; RADIATION PRESSURE ACCELERATIONS; SHORT-PULSE LASERS;

BEAM PLASMA INTERACTIONS; EXPERIMENTS; ION BEAMS; ION BOMBARDMENT; LASER PULSES; PLASMA SIMULATION; SOLITONS; TRANSPARENCY;

IONS;

EID: 79958851677     PISSN: 1070664X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3587110     Document Type: Article

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