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Table-top solar flares produced with laser driven magnetic reconnections

  • 1. Key Laboratory of Optical Astronomy, National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100012 (China)
  • 2. Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190 (China)
  • 3. State Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Technology, School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871 (China)
  • 4. Research Center for Laser Fusion, China Academy of Engineering Physics, Mianyang 621900 (China)
  • 5. National Laboratory on High Power Lasers and Physics, Shanghai 201800 (China)
  • 6. Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics, Beijing 100094 (China)
  • 7. Institute for Fusion and Simulation, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027 (China)
  • 8. Center for Applied Physics and Technology, Peking University, Beijing 100871 (China)
  • 9. Departmemt of Physics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240 (China)

Description

The American Nuclear Society (ANS) has presented the prestigious Edward Teller award to Dr. Bruce A. Remington during the 2011 IFSA conference due to his 'pioneering scientific work in the fields of inertial confinement fusion (ICF), and especially developing an international effort in high energy density laboratory astrophysics' [1,2]. This is a great acknowledgement to the subject of high energy density laboratory astrophysics. In this context, we report here one experiment conducted to model solar flares in the laboratory with intense lasers [3]. The mega-gauss -scale magnetic fields produced by laser produced plasmas can be used to make magnetic reconnection topology. We have produced one table-top solar flare in our laboratory experiment with the same geometric setup as associated with solar flares. (authors)

Availability note (English)

Available from doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20135901010

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Publishing Information

Publisher
EDP Sciences
Imprint Place
Les Ulis (France)
ISBN
978-2-7598-1077-2
Imprint Pagination
(v.59) 6 p.

Conference

Title
7. International Conference on Inertial Fusion Sciences and Applications
Acronym
IFSA 2011
Dates
12-16 Sep 2011
Place
Bordeaux (France)

INIS

Country of Publication
France
Country of Input or Organization
France
INIS RN
45030147
Subject category
S70: PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Conference
Descriptors DEI
ASTROPHYSICS; ENERGY DENSITY; INERTIAL CONFINEMENT; LASER-PRODUCED PLASMA; LASERS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC RECONNECTION; SOLAR FLARES
Descriptors DEC
CONFINEMENT; PHYSICS; PLASMA; PLASMA CONFINEMENT; SOLAR ACTIVITY; STELLAR ACTIVITY; STELLAR FLARES

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