Beam instabilities in laser-plasma interaction: Relevance to preferential ion heating

We propose a new mechanism for anomalous ion heating in ultraintense laser plasmas. This mechanism is based on the excitation of an electron two-stream instability that is driven by the fast electron beam that resonantly decays into ion-acoustic waves. These low frequency waves are then strongly dam...

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Hlavní autoři: Mendonça, J, Norreys, P, Bingham, R, Davies, JR
Médium: Journal article
Jazyk:English
Vydáno: 2005