Field reconstruction from proton radiography of intense laser driven magnetic reconnection

Palmer, Charlotte; Campbell, Paul; Ma, Yong; Antonelli, Luca; Bott, Archie; Gregori, Gianluca; Halliday, James; Katzir, Yiftak; Kordell, Peter; Krushelnick, Karl; Lebedev, Sergei; Montgomery, Emer; Notley, Margaret; Carroll, David; Ridgers, Christopher; Schekochihin, Alex; Streeter, Matthew; Thomas, Alexander; Tubman, Eleanor; Woolsey, Nigel; Willingale, Louise

doi:10.1063/1.5092733

Title: Field reconstruction from proton radiography of intense laser driven magnetic reconnection

Journal Article · 26 July 2019 · Physics of Plasmas

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5092733 · OSTI ID:1545010

Palmer, Charlotte ^[1]; Campbell, Paul ^[2]; Ma, Yong ^[2]; Antonelli, Luca ^[3]; Bott, Archie ^[1]; Gregori, Gianluca ^[1]; Halliday, James ^[4]; Katzir, Yiftak ^[5]; Kordell, Peter ^[2]; Krushelnick, Karl ^[2]; Lebedev, Sergei ^[4]; Montgomery, Emer ^[5]; Notley, Margaret ^[5]; Carroll, David ^[5]; Ridgers, Christopher ^[3]; Schekochihin, Alex ^[1]; Streeter, Matthew ^[4]; Thomas, Alexander ^[2]; Tubman, Eleanor ^[4]; Woolsey, Nigel ^[3] more »

Univ. of Oxford (United Kingdom)
Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States)
Univ. of York (United Kingdom)
Imperial College, London (United Kingdom)
Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), Oxford (United Kingdom). Rutherford Appleton Lab.

Magnetic reconnection is a process that contributes significantly to plasma dynamics and energy transfer in a wide range of plasma and magnetic field regimes, including inertial confinement fusion experiments, stellar coronae and compact, highly magnetized objects like neutron stars. Laboratory experiments in different regimes can help refine, expand and test the applicability of theoretical models to describe reconnection. Laser-plasma experiments exploring magnetic reconnection at moderate intensities (I_L ~ 10¹⁴ Wcm^-2) have been performed previously, where the Biermann battery effect self-generates magnetic fields and the field dynamics studied using proton radiog- raphy. At high laser intensities (I_Lλ$$2\atop{L}$$ > 10¹⁸ Wcm^-2 μm² ), relativistic surface currents and the time-varying electric sheath fields generate the azimuthal magnetic fields. Numerical modeling of these intensities has shown the conditions within the magnetic field region can reach the threshold where the magnetic energy can exceed the rest mass energy such that σ_cold = B²/(μ₀n_em_ec²) > 1 [A. E. Raymond, et al., Phys. Rev. E, 98, 043207 (2018)]. Presented here is the analysis of the proton radiography of a high-intensity (~ 10¹⁸ Wcm^-2) laser driven magnetic reconnection geometry. Lastly, the path integrated magnetic fields are recovered using a “field-reconstruction algorithm” to quantify the field strengths, geometry and evolution.

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Research Organization:: Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)

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OSTI ID:: 1545010

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Journal Information:: Physics of Plasmas, Vol. 26, Issue 8; ISSN 1070-664X

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