Effect of electron heating on self-induced transparency in relativistic-intensity laser-plasma interactions

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

Volumn 86, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Siminos, E ^a   Grech, M ^a   Skupin, S ^a,b   Schlegel, T ^c   Tikhonchuk, V T ^d  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK KOMPLEXER SYSTEME   (Germany)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^c HELMHOLTZ INSTITUTE JENA   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL DENSITY; ELECTRON HEATING; FINITE THRESHOLDS; INTENSE LASER PULSE; KINETIC EFFECT; LASER PULSE PROPAGATION; LASER-PLASMA INTERACTIONS; PARTICLE-IN-CELL SIMULATIONS; PHASE SPACES; PULSE PROFILE; SELF-INDUCED TRANSPARENCY; SEPARATRICES; SINGLE ELECTRON; TRANSPARENCY THRESHOLDS;

BEAM PLASMA INTERACTIONS; LASER PULSES; PHASE SPACE METHODS; TRANSPARENCY;

PLASMA HEATING;

EID: 84870435921     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.86.056404     Document Type: Article

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