Proton imaging of high-energy-density laboratory plasmas

DB Schaeffer, AFA Bott, M Borghesi, KA Flippo… - Reviews of Modern …, 2023 - APS
Proton imaging has become a key diagnostic for measuring electromagnetic fields in high-
energy-density (HED) laboratory plasmas. Compared to other techniques for diagnosing …

Generation, measurement, and modeling of strong magnetic fields generated by laser-driven micro coils

H Morita, S Fujioka - Reviews of Modern Plasma Physics, 2023 - Springer
Strong magnetic fields play an important role in high-energy-density plasma. Several
approaches have been investigated within a decade to access the strong magnetic field …

Magnetic reconnection between colliding magnetized laser-produced plasma plumes

G Fiksel, W Fox, A Bhattacharjee, DH Barnak… - Physical review …, 2014 - APS
Observations of magnetic reconnection between colliding plumes of magnetized laser-
produced plasma are presented. Two counterpropagating plasma flows are created by …

The Plasma Simulation Code: A modern particle-in-cell code with patch-based load-balancing

K Germaschewski, W Fox, S Abbott, N Ahmadi… - Journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
This work describes the Plasma Simulation Code (psc), an explicit, electromagnetic particle-
in-cell code with support for different order particle shape functions. We review the basic …

Plasmoid formation and strong radiative cooling in a driven magnetic reconnection experiment

R Datta, K Chandler, CE Myers, JP Chittenden… - Physical review …, 2024 - APS
We present the first experimental study of plasmoid formation in a magnetic reconnection
layer undergoing rapid radiative cooling, a regime relevant to extreme astrophysical …

A laboratory study of asymmetric magnetic reconnection in strongly driven plasmas

MJ Rosenberg, CK Li, W Fox, I Igumenshchev… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Magnetic reconnection, the annihilation and rearrangement of magnetic fields in a plasma,
is a universal phenomenon that frequently occurs when plasmas carrying oppositely …

Slowing of magnetic reconnection concurrent with weakening plasma inflows and increasing collisionality in strongly driven laser-plasma experiments

MJ Rosenberg, CK Li, W Fox, AB Zylstra, C Stoeckl… - Physical review …, 2015 - APS
An evolution of magnetic reconnection behavior, from fast jets to the slowing of reconnection
and the establishment of a stable current sheet, has been observed in strongly driven, β≲ 20 …

[HTML][HTML] Kinetic simulation of magnetic field generation and collisionless shock formation in expanding laboratory plasmas

W Fox, J Matteucci, C Moissard, DB Schaeffer… - Physics of …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
Recent laboratory experiments with laser-produced plasmas have observed and studied a
number of fundamental physical processes relevant to magnetized astrophysical plasmas …

Observations of pressure anisotropy effects within semi-collisional magnetized plasma bubbles

ER Tubman, AS Joglekar, AFA Bott, M Borghesi… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Magnetized plasma interactions are ubiquitous in astrophysical and laboratory plasmas.
Various physical effects have been shown to be important within colliding plasma flows …

Topology of megagauss magnetic fields and of heat-carrying electrons produced in a high-power laser-solid interaction

L Lancia, B Albertazzi, C Boniface, A Grisollet… - Physical review …, 2014 - APS
The intricate spatial and energy distribution of magnetic fields, self-generated during high
power laser irradiation (at I λ 2∼ 1 0 13-1 0 14 W. cm− 2. μ m 2) of a solid target, and of the …