title: Propagation of a short proton beam through a thin plasma slab.
abstract: A one-dimensional open boundary Vlasov code is used in order to investigate the propagation of a short proton beam through a plasma slab. Collisionless regimes are assumed, where the interaction between the beam and the plasma occurs due to the self-consistent, collective, electric field. Both charge compensated (by an accompanying electron cloud) and noncompensated beams are considered.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics and INFM, Pisa University, Pisa, Italy.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Califano
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Pegoraro
authors.forename: S V
authors.initials: SV
authors.lastname: Bulanov