Acceleration and double-peak spectrum of hot electrons in relativistic laser plasmas

被引:9
作者
Liu, SB
Zhang, J
Yu, W
机构
[1] Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Phys, Lab Opt Phys, Beijing 100080, Peoples R China
[2] CCAST, World Lab, Beijing 100080, Peoples R China
[3] Acad Sinica, Shanghai Inst Opt & Fine Mech, Shanghai 201800, Peoples R China
来源
PHYSICAL REVIEW E | 1999年 / 60卷 / 03期
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D O I
10.1103/PhysRevE.60.3279
中图分类号
O35 [流体力学]; O53 [等离子体物理学];
学科分类号
070204 ; 080103 ; 080704 ;
摘要
A spectrum equation of hot electrons in relativistic laser plasmas is derived in which two her-electron population peaks appear as the laser strength parameter reaches a threshold. These calculations can explain the generation of very hot electrons with several tens of MeV energy and two hot-electron population peaks observed in the recent experiments. [S1063-651X(99)06009-2].
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页码:3279 / 3282
页数:4
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