Charged particle acceleration by an intense wake-field excited in plasmas by either laser pulse or relativistic electron bunch

Laser and Particle Beams

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 383-392

  Balakirev, V A ^a   KARAS' I V ^a   KARAS' V I ^a   Levchenko, V D ^b   Bornatici, M ^c  

^a KHARKOV INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS AND TECHNOLOGY   (Ukraine)

^b KELDYSH INSTITUTE OF APPLIED MATHEMATICS   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Charged particle acceleration; Laser pulse; Nonlinear phenomena numerical simulation; Plasma accelerators; Relativistic electron bunches; Wake fields excitation

Indexed keywords

EID: 85011519553     PISSN: 02630346     EISSN: 1469803X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0263034604040029     Document Type: Article

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