Phase speed of electrostatic waves: the critical parameter for efficient electron surfing acceleration
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Phase speed of electrostatic waves: the critical parameter for efficient electron surfing acceleration
Particle acceleration by means of nonlinear plasma wave interactions is of great topical interest. Accordingly, in this paper we focus on the electron surfing process. Self-consistent kinetic simulations, using both relativistic Vlasov and particle-in-cell (PIC) approaches, show here that electrons can be accelerated to highly relativistic energies (up to 100mec) if the phase speed of the elect...
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عنوان ژورنال: Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0741-3335,1361-6587
DOI: 10.1088/0741-3335/48/4/002