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Matter and Radiation at Extremes, Volume. 4, Issue 1, 014401(2019)

Collimated GeV attosecond electron–positron bunches from a plasma channel driven by 10 PW lasers

Xing-Long Zhu^1,2, Min Chen^1,2, Tong-Pu Yu³, Su-Ming Weng^1,2, Feng He^1,2, and Zheng-Ming Sheng^1,2,4,5、a)

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¹Key Laboratory for Laser Plasmas (MoE), School of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China

²Collaborative Innovation Center of IFSA, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China

³Department of Physics, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China

⁴SUPA, Department of Physics, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G4 0NG, UK

⁵Tsung-Dao Lee Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China

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Xing-Long Zhu, Min Chen, Tong-Pu Yu, Su-Ming Weng, Feng He, Zheng-Ming Sheng. Collimated GeV attosecond electron–positron bunches from a plasma channel driven by 10 PW lasers[J]. Matter and Radiation at Extremes, 2019, 4(1): 014401

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Category: Fundamental Physics At Extremes

Received: Jul. 30, 2018

Accepted: Oct. 28, 2018

Published Online: Mar. 25, 2019

The Author Email: Sheng Zheng-Ming (zmsheng@sjtu.edu.cn)

DOI:10.1063/1.5083914

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