Electron, photon, and ion beams from the relativistic interaction of Petawatt laser pulses with solid targets

Physics of Plasmas

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 2076-2082

  Hatchett, Stephen P ^a   Brown, Curtis G ^a   Cowan, Thomas E ^a   Henry, Eugene A ^a   Johnson, Joy S ^a   Key, Michael H ^a   Koch, Jeffrey A ^a   Langdon, A Bruce ^a   Lasinski, Barbara F ^a   Lee, Richard W ^a   Mackinnon, Andrew J ^a   Pennington, Deanna M ^a   Perry, Michael D ^a   Phillips, Thomas W ^a   Roth, Markus ^a   Sangster, T Craig ^a   Singh, Mike S ^a   Snavely, Richard A ^a   Stoyer, Mark A ^a   Wilks, Scott C ^a   Yasuike, Kazuhito ^a   more..

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

BEAM PLASMA SYSTEMS; BREMSSTRAHLUNG; ELECTRON BEAMS; ELECTRON SOURCES; ION BEAMS; ION SOURCES; LASER TARGETS; LIGHT SOURCES; PHOTON BEAMS; X RAY EMISSION ANALYSIS

Indexed keywords

EID: 85012293696     PISSN: 1070664X     EISSN: 10897674     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.874030     Document Type: Conference Paper

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