Phys. Rev. Lett. 39, 284 - 288 (1977)

Theory of Hot-Electron Spectra at High Laser Intensity

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D. W. Forslund, J. M. Kindel, and K. Lee
Theoretical Division, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545

Received 17 January 1977

A simple model involving resonant absorption in a self-consistent sharp density gradient is found to be in quantitative agreement with the suprathermal-electron spectrum from recent laser-plasma-interaction experiments and to explain qualitatively the scaling of that suprathermal-electron spectrum with laser power and wavelength.


©1977 The American Physical Society

URL: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.39.284
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.39.284

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