TY - JOUR
T1 - Numerical Simulation of Wake-Field Acceleration Using an Eulerian Vlasov Code
AU - M. Shoucri
JO - Communications in Computational Physics
VL - 3
SP - 703
EP - 718
PY - 2008
DA - 2008/09
SN - 4
DO - http://doi.org/
UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/cicp/7812.html
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AB - <p style="text-align: justify;">We study the generation of nonlinear plasma wake fields by intense laser pulses, using an Eulerian code for the numerical solution of the fully relativistic one-dimensional (1D) Vlasov-Maxwell equations. The examination of the phase-space of the distribution function allows to study without numerical noise aspects of the particle acceleration by the wake-field generated by intense laser pulses, in the very low density regions of the phase-space. We study the effect of the thermal spread on the existence of accelerated beams, and we compare between results obtained from a circularly polarized wave and a linearly polarized wave.&nbsp;</p>