Laser wake field acceleration with controlled self-injection by sharp density transition

Laser and Particle Beams

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 423-429

  Tomassini, P ^a   Galimberti, M ^a   Giulietti, A ^a   Giulietti, D ^a,b   Gizzi, L A ^a   Labate, L ^a,c   Pegoraro, F ^b  

^a CNR IPSP Istituto per la Protezione Sostenibile delle Piante Dipartimento di Scienze BioAgroAlimentari   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Laser plasma accelerators; Wave breaking

Indexed keywords

EID: 85011482280     PISSN: 02630346     EISSN: 1469803X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S026303460404008X     Document Type: Article

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