Plasmoid ejection and secondary current sheet generation from magnetic reconnection in laser-plasma interaction

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 108, Issue 21, 2012, Pages

  Dong, Quan Li ^a   Wang, Shou Jun ^a   Lu, Quan Ming ^b   Huang, Can ^b   Yuan, Da Wei ^a   Liu, Xun ^a   Lin, Xiao Xuan ^a   Li, Yu Tong ^a   Wei, Hui Gang ^c   Zhong, Jia Yong ^c   Shi, Jian Rong ^c   Jiang, Shao En ^d   Ding, Yong Kun ^d   Jiang, Bo Bin ^d   Du, Kai ^d   He, Xian Tu ^e,f   Yu, M Y ^f,g   Liu, C S ^h   Wang, Shui ^b   Tang, Yong Jian ^d   Zhu, Jian Qiang ⁱ   Zhao, Gang ^c   Sheng, Zheng Ming ^a,j   Zhang, Jie ^a,j   more..

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^c CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^d RESEARCH CENTER OF LASER FUSION   (China)

^e INSTITUTE OF APPLIED PHYSICS AND COMPUTATIONAL MATHEMATICS   (China)

^f ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^g RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^h University of Maryland   (United States)

ⁱ National Laboratory on High Power Lasers and Physics   (China)

^j SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENT SHEETS; ELECTRON ACCELERATION; JET ENERGY; LASER SPOTS; LASER-PLASMA INTERACTIONS; MAGNETIC RECONNECTIONS; MAGNETOTAIL RECONNECTION; POWER LAW SCALINGS; SECONDARY CURRENTS; SOLID TARGETS; THIN TARGET;

ELECTRIC FIELDS; LASER BEAMS; LASER FUSION; MAGNETIC FIELDS;

BEAM PLASMA INTERACTIONS;

EID: 84861608386     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.215001     Document Type: Article

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