Numerical modeling of fast electron generation in the presence of preformed plasma in laser-matter interaction at relativistic intensities

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Paradkar, B S ^a   Wei, M S ^b   Yabuuchi, T ^a   Stephens, R B ^b   Haines, M G ^c   Krasheninnikov, S I ^a   Beg, F N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b GENERAL ATOMICS   (United States)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORONAL PLASMAS; COUNTERPROPAGATING; FAST ELECTRON GENERATION; FAST ELECTRONS; INTENSITY RANGE; LASER-MATTER INTERACTIONS; NUMERICAL MODELING; PARTICLE-IN-CELL SIMULATIONS; PLASMA ELECTRONS; PREFORMED PLASMA; REFLECTED WAVES; RELATIVISTIC INTENSITY; SCALE LENGTH; SOLID TARGETS; STOCHASTIC MOTION; SYNERGETIC EFFECT;

ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; ELECTRONS; HEATING; NEUTRON EMISSION; PLASMA DENSITY;

PLASMAS;

EID: 79961094120     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.83.046401     Document Type: Article

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