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A nonthermal beam-target model is proposed to explain the anomalous generation of neutrons from laser plasmas. The model requires the presence of a multimicrosecond prepulse that generates an extended low-density gas cloud, and it predicts the effects of the addition of a background gas to the experiments.
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