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ion acceleration by the strong sheath field set up when laser-heated electrons leave the rear surface of a thin target.

In plasma physics, target normal sheath acceleration refers to ion acceleration by the strong sheath field set up when laser-heated electrons leave the rear surface of a thin target. This meaning comes from Wilks (2001) in Physics of Plasmas.[1]

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References

Wilks, S. C., Langdon, A. B., Cowan, T. E., Roth, M., Singh, M., Hatchett, S., Key, M. H., Pennington, D., MacKinnon, A., & Snavely, R. A. (2001). Energetic proton generation in ultra-intense laser–solid interactions. Physics of Plasmas, 8(2), 542-549. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1333697

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