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Figure 3

From: Electrostatic shock acceleration of ions in near-critical-density plasma driven by a femtosecond petawatt laser

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Ion motion within the space charge field created by the laser pulse. (a) Snapshot of the electron density profile (grey color scale), superimposed with the transverse velocity distribution of \({He}^{2+}\) (red–white–blue color scale) at time \(940.45{/\omega }_{0}\). (b) Transverse field distribution along the x directions at z = \(990c{/\omega }_{0}\) at various times. The propagation direction of the laser pulse is from left to right. The central axis of the laser pulse is located at \(x = 500c/{\omega }_{0}\).

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