Bidirectional jet formation during driven magnetic reconnection in two-beam laser-plasma interactions

Physics of Plasmas

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 2008, Pages

  Nilson, P M ^a,e   Willingale, L ^a   Kaluza, M C ^a,f   Kamperidis, C ^a   Minardi, S ^b   Wei, M S ^a,g   Fernandes, P ^a   Notley, M ^c   Bandyopadhyay, S ^c   Sherlock, M ^c   Kingham, R J ^a   Tatarakis, M ^b   Najmudin, Z ^a   Rozmus, W ^d   Evans, R G ^c   Haines, M G ^a   Dangor, A E ^a   Krushelnick, K ^a,h  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CRETE   (Greece)

^c Science and Technology Facilities Council   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^f FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

A-PRIORI; ANALYTIC CALCULATIONS; EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATIONS; FAST RECONNECTION; JET FORMATION; LASER-PLASMA INTERACTIONS; MAGNETIC RECONNECTION; SOLID TARGETS; SPITZER; SWEET-PARKER MODEL; TIME SCALING;

ASTROPHYSICS; BEAM PLASMA INTERACTIONS; GEOPHYSICS; JETS; PLASMA DIAGNOSTICS; PLASMAS;

PLASMA INTERACTIONS;

EID: 54749133161     PISSN: 1070664X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2966115     Document Type: Article

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