EPJ Web of Conferences (Nov 2013)

Table-top solar flares produced with laser driven magnetic reconnections

  • Zhong J.Y.,
  • Li Y.T.,
  • Wang X.G.,
  • Wang J.Q.,
  • Dong Q.L.,
  • Liu X.,
  • Lin X.X.,
  • Yuan D.W.,
  • Du F.,
  • Wang S.J.,
  • Zhang L.,
  • An L.,
  • Xiao C.J.,
  • Wei H.G.,
  • Zhang K.,
  • Wang F.L.,
  • Jiang S.E.,
  • Ding Y.K.,
  • Cao Z.R.,
  • Yuan Z.,
  • Zhang H.Y.,
  • Yang Z.W.,
  • Zhu J.Q.,
  • He X.T.,
  • Cai H.B.,
  • Zhao G.,
  • Zhang J.

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20135901010
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 59
p. 01010

Abstract

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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.