It is proposed that a resonant mechanism should cause significant absorption of energy from intense laser pulses in plasma targets, and that the energy should be deposited in such a way as to form a very non-Maxwellian high-temperature tail on the electron velocity distribution.
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Freidberg et al. (1972) studied this question.
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