Effect of plastic coating on the density of plasma formed in Si foil targets irradiated by ultra-high-contrast relativistic laser pulses

A. S. Martynenko, S. A. Pikuz^*, I. Yu Skobelev, S. N. Ryazantsev, C. Baird, N. Booth, L. Doehl, P. Durey, A. Ya Faenov, D. Farley, R. Kodama, K. Lancaster, P. McKenna, C. D. Murphy, C. Spindloe, T. A. Pikuz, N. Woolsey

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