Fig. 1: Correlation of maximum holeboring acceleration and scale length.
From: Time-resolved study of holeboring in realistic experimental conditions
Maximum holeboring acceleration extracted from the 2-D PIC simulation for different preplasma scale lengths and maximum laser intensities (colored shapes). The uncertainties are given by the peak-to-valley difference between different polynomial fits to the instantaneous wavelength. The dashed lines represent the calculated acceleration for Gaussian intensity distribution with a pulse duration of 250 fs, and an exponential density profile with the given scale length.
