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Matter and Radiation at Extremes, Volume. 9, Issue 3, 035201(2024)

Ultrahigh-brightness 50 MeV electron beam generation from laser wakefield acceleration in a weakly nonlinear regime

Zhongtao Xiang*... Changhai Yu, Zhiyong Qin, Xuhui Jiao, Jiahui Cheng, Qiaoxuan Zhou, Gatie Axi, Jianghua Jie, Ya Huang, Jintan Cai and Jiansheng Liu |Show fewer author(s)
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    Received: Nov. 29, 2023

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    DOI:10.1063/5.0189460

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