Artificial collimation of fast-electron beams with two laser pulses

A scheme for artificially collimating fast-electron beams produced in high intensity (>1019Wcm-2) laser-solid interactions is proposed. The scheme uses a laser pulse at the relativistic threshold (1018Wcm-2) that precedes the high intensity pulse to pregenerate a collimating magnetic field. T...

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Main Authors: Robinson, A, Sherlock, M, Norreys, P
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2008