A long-standing problem in magnetic reconnection is to explain why it tends to proceed at or
below a normalized rate of 0.1. This article gives a review of observational and numerical …

Proton imaging has become a key diagnostic for measuring electromagnetic fields in high-
energy-density (HED) laboratory plasmas. Compared to other techniques for diagnosing …

Turbulent magnetic reconnection is believed to occur in astrophysical plasmas, and it has
been suggested to be a trigger of solar flares. It often occurs in long stretched and …

Observations of magnetic reconnection between colliding plumes of magnetized laser-
produced plasma are presented. Two counterpropagating plasma flows are created by …

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 …

Reconnection of the self-generated magnetic fields in laser-plasma interaction was first
investigated experimentally by Nilson et al.[Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 255001 (2006) PRLTAO …

We present the first experimental study of plasmoid formation in a magnetic reconnection
layer undergoing rapid radiative cooling, a regime relevant to extreme astrophysical …

In experiments performed with the OMEGA EP laser system, magnetic field generation in
double ablation fronts was observed. Proton radiography measured the strength, spatial …

The magnetic fields generated at the surface of a laser-irradiated planar solid target are
mapped using ultrafast proton radiography. Thick (50 μ m) plastic foils are irradiated with 4 …

A two-dimensional (2D) linear theory of the instability of Sweet-Parker (SP) current sheets is
developed in the framework of reduced magnetohydrodynamics. A local analysis is …