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B A Shadwick1, G M Tarkenton, E H Esarey

  • 1Institute for Advanced Physics, Suite 199, 10875 US Hwy 285, Conifer, Colorado 80433, USA. BAShadwick@IAPhysics.org

Physical Review Letters
|November 5, 2004
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