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Terry Kammash - NASA's Institute for Advanced Concepts

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Two Asymptotic Regimes <strong>for</strong>Ion Acceleration1. “Isothermal” expansion relevantto long pulse lengths i.e.τ>t i (t =1ps) iIons acquire exponential distributionin velocitydn i /dv ~ exp-( v/C S )Where C S =√ZT e /m i = ion soundspeed

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