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

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 rel...

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Published in:High power laser science and engineering 2021, Vol.9, Article e2
Main Authors: Gu, Yan-Jun, Bulanov, Sergei V.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Astrophysics
Charged particles
Collisionless plasmas
Electric fields
Energy
Experiments
Laboratories
Laser plasma interactions
Laser plasmas
Lasers
Magnetic fields
Particle acceleration
Plasma
Plasma interactions
Relativistic effects
Relativistic particles
Review
Simulation
Space plasmas
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Summary: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.
ISSN:2095-4719
2052-3289
DOI:10.1017/hpl.2020.45