Real-time diagnostics of fast light ion beams accelerated by a sub-nanosecond laser

Nukleonika

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 137-141

  Margarone, Daniele ^a   Krása, Josef ^a   Picciotto, Antonino ^a   Prokupek, Jan ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Czech Republic)

^b ITC IRST   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ion beams; Laser driven acceleration; Real time diagnostics

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960858131     PISSN: 00295922     EISSN: 15085791     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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