Magnetic reconnection driven by intense lasers

Zhong, Jiayong; Yuan, Xunhui; Han, Bo; Sun, W.; Ping, Yongli

doi:10.1017/hpl.2018.39

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“…Based on the developments of high-power laser technology, scientists have established some classic LDMR environments to conduct laboratory research [5]- [11]. The literature [7] reviews the development of LDMR. LDMR is classified as high-𝛽 or low-𝛽, depending on the plasma conditions…”

Section: Ldmr Diagnosismentioning

confidence: 99%

Narrow-bandwidth, extreme ultraviolet, spontaneous light-imaging technique for laser-driven magnetic reconnection studies

Xiong

Fang

et al. 2023

J. Inst.

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Laser-driven magnetic reconnection (LDMR) is an important research topic in the field of high-energy-density physics, such as laboratory astrophysics. In this study, the narrow bandwidth spontaneous light imaging (SLI) technique at the extreme ultraviolet (EUV) band is introduced to detect magnetic reconnection and the jets produced by LDMR. The EUV-based SLI technique will provide reference values for the verification of the results obtained with traditional methods.

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Section: Ldmr Diagnosismentioning

confidence: 99%

Narrow-bandwidth, extreme ultraviolet, spontaneous light-imaging technique for laser-driven magnetic reconnection studies

Xiong

Fang

et al. 2023

J. Inst.

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“…Many experiments were conducted following this paper. Such laser reconnection experiments are recently reviewed, for example, in [23] . Proton backlight diagnostics now well provides the special distribution of magnetic fields.…”

Section: Magnetic Reconnection Experimentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Recent progress of laboratory astrophysics with intense lasers

Takabe

Kuramitsu

2021

High Pow Laser Sci Eng

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Thanks to a rapid progress of high-power lasers soon after the birth of laser by T. H. Maiman in 1960, intense lasers have been developed mainly for studying scientific feasibility of the laser fusion in the world wide. Inertial confinement fusion with intense laser has attracted attention as a new future energy after two oil crises from 1970s -1980s. From the beginning, the most challenging physics is known to be the hydrodynamic instability to realize the spherical implosion to achieve more than 1000 times the solid density. A lot of studies have been carried out theoretically and experimentally on the hydrodynamic instability and resultant turbulent mixing of compressible fluids. During such activities in laboratory, the explosion of supernova SN1987A was observed in the sky on February 23, 1987. The x-ray satellites have revealed that the hydrodynamic instability is a key issue to understand the physics of supernova explosion. After strong interaction of laser plasma researchers and astrophysicists, the laboratory astrophysics with intense lasers has been proposed and promoted around the end of 1990s. The original subject was mainly related to hydrodynamic instabilities. However, after two decades of the laboratory astrophysics research, we can now find a diversity of its research topics. It has been demonstrated that a variety of nonlinear physics of collisionless plasmas can be studied in laser ablation plasmas in the last decade theoretically and experimentally. In the present paper, we shed light on the recent ten topics intensively studied in laboratory experiments. Brief review is given by citing recent papers. Then, modeling cosmic-ray acceleration with lasers is reviewed in a following session as a special topic to be the coming main topics in laboratory astrophysics research.

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“…MR is a fundamental process which causes great interests in the past decades in space astrophysics, laboratory astrophysics, plasma and fusion physics. The basic theories within the frameworks of megnetohydrodynamics/electron magnetohydrodynamics (MHD/EMHD) and observations from astronomy have been reviewed in many articles and books [1][2][3][4]63,[79][80][81][82][83][84][85][86] . Here in this paper, we briefly review the recent results obtained in the field of laser-driven ultrarelativistic MR in collisionless plasmas.…”

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Magnetic field annihilation and charged particle acceleration in ultra-relativistic laser plasmas

Bulanov

2021

High Pow Laser Sci Eng

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Magnetic reconnection driven by laser plasma interactions attracts great interests in the recent decades. Motivated by the rapid development of the laser technology, the ultra strong magnetic field generated by the laser-plasma accelerated electrons provides unique environment to investigate the relativistic magnetic field annihilation and reconnection. It opens a new way for understanding relativistic regimes of fast magnetic field dissipation particularly in space plasmas, where the large scale magnetic field energy is converted to the energy of the nonthermal charged particles. Here we review the recent results in relativistic magnetic reconnection based on the laser and collisionless plasma interactions. The basic mechanism and the theoretical model are discussed. Several proposed experimental setups for relativistic reconnection research are presented.

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Magnetic reconnection driven by intense lasers

Cited by 7 publications

References 88 publications

Narrow-bandwidth, extreme ultraviolet, spontaneous light-imaging technique for laser-driven magnetic reconnection studies

Narrow-bandwidth, extreme ultraviolet, spontaneous light-imaging technique for laser-driven magnetic reconnection studies

Recent progress of laboratory astrophysics with intense lasers

Magnetic field annihilation and charged particle acceleration in ultra-relativistic laser plasmas

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