Astrophysical particle acceleration mechanisms in colliding magnetized laser-produced plasmas

Generation and Evolution of High-Mach-Number Laser-Driven Magnetized Collisionless Shocks in the Laboratory

(2017) D. B. Schaeffer et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Particle acceleration in laser-driven magnetic reconnection

(2017) S. R. Totorica et al.   PHYSICS OF PLASMAS

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

(2016) Kai Germaschewski et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS

Particle-in-cell simulations of electron energization in laser-driven magnetic reconnection

(2016) San Lu et al.   NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS

Nonthermal Electron Energization from Magnetic Reconnection in Laser-Driven Plasmas

(2016) Samuel R. Totorica et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Observation of magnetic field generation via the Weibel instability in interpenetrating plasma flows

(2015) C. M. Huntington et al.   Nature Physics

Slowing of Magnetic Reconnection Concurrent with Weakening Plasma Inflows and Increasing Collisionality in Strongly Driven Laser-Plasma Experiments

(2015) M. J. Rosenberg et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Note: Experimental platform for magnetized high-energy-density plasma studies at the omega laser facility

(2015) G. Fiksel et al.   REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS

Stochastic electron acceleration during spontaneous turbulent reconnection in a strong shock wave

(2015) Y. Matsumoto et al.   SCIENCE

Observation of collisionless shocks in a large current-free laboratory plasma

(2014) C. Niemann et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Formation of super-Alfvénic electron jets during laser-driven magnetic reconnection at the Shenguang-II facility: particle-in-cell simulations

(2014) San Lu et al.   NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS

Magnetic Reconnection between Colliding Magnetized Laser-Produced Plasma Plumes

(2014) G. Fiksel et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Formation of Hard Power Laws in the Energetic Particle Spectra Resulting from Relativistic Magnetic Reconnection

(2014) Fan Guo et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Electron heating during magnetic reconnection: A simulation scaling study

(2014) M. A. Shay et al.   PHYSICS OF PLASMAS

The mechanisms of electron heating and acceleration during magnetic reconnection

(2014) J. T. Dahlin et al.   PHYSICS OF PLASMAS

Electron bulk heating in magnetic reconnection at Earth's magnetopause: Dependence on the inflow Alfvén speed and magnetic shear

(2013) T. D. Phan et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Filamentation Instability of Counterstreaming Laser-Driven Plasmas

(2013) W. Fox et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Detection of the Characteristic Pion-Decay Signature in Supernova Remnants

(2013) M. Ackermann et al.   SCIENCE

FAST MAGNETIC RECONNECTION AND PARTICLE ACCELERATION IN RELATIVISTIC LOW-DENSITY ELECTRON-POSITRON PLASMAS WITHOUT GUIDE FIELD

(2012) Naoki Bessho et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

THE POWER-LAW SPECTRA OF ENERGETIC PARTICLES DURING MULTI-ISLAND MAGNETIC RECONNECTION

(2012) J. F. Drake et al.   Astrophysical Journal Letters

Energetic electron generation by magnetic reconnection in laboratory laser-plasma interactions

(2012) Q.-L. DONG et al.   JOURNAL OF PLASMA PHYSICS

First-order Fermi acceleration driven by magnetic reconnection

(2012) L. O’C. Drury   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Plasmoid Ejection and Secondary Current Sheet Generation from Magnetic Reconnection in Laser-Plasma Interaction

(2012) Quan-Li Dong et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Magnetic reconnection in high-energy-density laser-produced plasmas

(2012) W. Fox et al.   PHYSICS OF PLASMAS

Relativistic Reconnection and Particle Acceleration

(2012) M. Hoshino et al.   SPACE SCIENCE REVIEWS

RECONNECTION-POWERED LINEAR ACCELERATOR AND GAMMA-RAY FLARES IN THE CRAB NEBULA

(2011) Dmitri A. Uzdensky et al.   Astrophysical Journal Letters

Fast Magnetic Reconnection in Laser-Produced Plasma Bubbles

(2011) W. Fox et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Laboratory observations of electron energization and associated lower-hybrid and Trivelpiece–Gould wave turbulence during magnetic reconnection

(2010) W. Fox et al.   PHYSICS OF PLASMAS

Magnetic reconnection

(2010) Masaaki Yamada et al.   REVIEWS OF MODERN PHYSICS

Particle Acceleration in Relativistic Collisionless Shocks: Fermi Process at Last?

(2008) Anatoly Spitkovsky   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL