Collisionless shocks in laser-produced plasma generate monoenergetic high-energy proton beams

Nature Physics

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 95-99

  Haberberger, Dan ^a   Tochitsky, Sergei ^a   Fiuza, Frederico ^b   Gong, Chao ^a   Fonseca, Ricardo A ^b,c   Silva, Luis O ^b   Mori, Warren B ^a   Joshi, Chan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^c INSTITUTO UNIVERSITÁRIO DE LISBOA ISCTE IUL   (Portugal)

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EID: 84355161564     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys2130     Document Type: Article

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