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wakefields

wakefields is the plural of wakefield.

Meaning of wakefield

Noun

wakefield (plural wakefields)

  1. The electron density wave structure which immediately follows an intense laser beam or relativistic charged particle beam as it passes through a plasma; the electric field or potential associated with such a structure.
    • Calculation of the plasma wakefields (driven electron plasma waves) generated by nonevolving drive laser pulses is straightforward.2009, E. Esarey, C. B. Schroeder & W. P. Leemans, “Physics of laser-driven plasma-based electron accelerators”, in Reviews of Modern Physics, volume 81, number 3, pages 1229-1285

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Wakefields is the plural of wakefield.

Words near wakefields in the dictionary

  1. wakeels
  2. WaKeeney
  3. wakefield
  4. wakefieldite
  5. wakefieldites
  6. wakefields
  7. Wakeford
  8. Wakefords
  9. wakeful
  10. wakefullness
  11. wakefully

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