@inproceedings{7d9a50a572dc46a9839cbead730bc6d8,
title = "Ultrafast charge dynamics initiated by high-intensity, ultrashort laser-matter interaction",
abstract = "The interaction of high-intensity laser pulses with matter releases instantaneously ultra-large currents of highly energetic electrons, leading to the generation of highly-transient, large-amplitude electric and magnetic fields. We report results of recent experiment in which such charge dynamics have been studied by using proton probing techniques able to provide maps of the electrostatic fields with high spatial and temporal resolution. The dynamics of ponderomotive channelling in underdense plasmas have been studied in this way, as also the processes of Debye sheath formation and MeV ion front expansion at the rear of laser-irradiated thin metallic foils. An application employing laser-driven impulsive fields for energy-selective ion beam focusing is also presented.",
keywords = "High-intensity laser-matter interaction, Hot electron dynamics, Ion acceleration, Ion focusing, Proton probing",
author = "Marco Borghesi and Lorenzo Romagnani and Satyabrata Kar and Toma Toncian and Patrizio Antici and Patrick Audebert and Erik Brambrink and Francesco Ceccherini and Cecchetti, \{Carlo A.\} and Julien Fuchs and Marco Galimberti and Gizzi, \{Leonida A.\} and Thomas Grismayer and Ralph Jung and Andrea MacChi and Patrick Mora and Jens Osterholtz and Angelo Schiavi and Oswald Willi",
year = "2006",
month = apr,
day = "7",
doi = "10.1063/1.2195211",
language = "English",
isbn = "0735403198",
series = "AIP Conference Proceedings",
pages = "191--202",
booktitle = "SUPERSTRONG FIELDS IN PLASMAS",
note = "3rd International Conference on Superstrong Fields in Plasmas ; Conference date: 19-09-2005 Through 24-09-2005",
}