Relativistic magnetic reconnection in laser laboratory for testing an emission mechanism of hard-state black hole system

KFF Law, Y Abe, A Morace, Y Arikawa, S Sakata, S Lee… - Physical Review E, 2020 - APS
Magnetic reconnection in a relativistic electron magnetization regime was observed in a
laboratory plasma produced by a high-intensity, large energy, picoseconds laser pulse …

Neural network analysis of quasistationary magnetic fields in microcoils driven by short laser pulses

IV Kochetkov, ND Bukharskii, M Ehret, Y Abe… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Optical generation of kilo-tesla scale magnetic fields enables prospective technologies and
fundamental studies with unprecedentedly high magnetic field energy density. A question is …

Magnetohydrodynamics of laser-produced high-energy-density plasma in a strong external magnetic field

K Matsuo, H Nagatomo, Z Zhang, P Nicolai, T Sano… - Physical Review E, 2017 - APS
Recent progress in the generation in the laboratory of a strong (> 100-T) magnetic field
enables us to investigate experimentally unexplored magnetohydrodynamics phenomena of …

Direct observations of pure electron outflow in magnetic reconnection

K Sakai, T Moritaka, T Morita, K Tomita, T Minami… - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
Magnetic reconnection is a universal process in space, astrophysical, and laboratory
plasmas. It alters magnetic field topology and results in energy release to the plasma. Here …

Laboratory observation of plasmoid-dominated magnetic reconnection in hybrid collisional-collisionless regime

Z Zhao, H An, Y **e, Z Lei, W Yao, W Yuan… - Communications …, 2022 - nature.com
Magnetic reconnection, breaking and reorganization of magnetic field topology, is a
fundamental process for rapid release of magnetic energy into plasmas that occurs …

[HTML][HTML] Study of a magnetically driven reconnection platform using ultrafast proton radiography

A Chien, L Gao, H Ji, X Yuan, EG Blackman… - Physics of …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
A novel magnetically driven reconnection platform was created by a pair of U-shaped Cu
coils that connect two parallel Cu plates irradiated at a focused laser intensity of∼ 3× 10 16 …

100-kT magnetic field generation using paisley targets by femtosecond laser–plasma interactions

MAH Zosa, YJ Gu, M Murakami - Applied Physics Letters, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
A target using a paisley pattern generates 100-kT-level magnetic fields. Laser irradiation
induces local charge separation on the target, which creates surface currents along the …

Dynamics of laser-generated magnetic fields using long laser pulses

H Morita, BB Pollock, CS Goyon, GJ Williams, KFF Law… - Physical Review E, 2021 - APS
We report on the experimental investigation of magnetic field generation with a half-loop
gold sheet coil driven by long-duration (10 ns) and high-power (0.5 TW) laser pulses. The …

Magnetic field amplification to gigagauss scale via hydrodynamic flows and dynamos driven by femtosecond lasers

K Jiang, A Pukhov, CT Zhou - New Journal of Physics, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Reaching gigagauss magnetic fields opens new horizons both in atomic and plasma
physics. At these magnetic field strengths, the electron cyclotron energy ℏω c becomes …

Pulse width dependence of magnetic field generation using laser-powered capacitor coils

A Chien, L Gao, S Zhang, H Ji, E Blackman… - Physics of …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Megagauss magnetic fields were generated by a current flowing through a U-shaped coil
connecting two parallel copper foils. Two kJ-class lasers at various pulse widths from 2 ns to …