Communications Physics (Oct 2022)
Laboratory observation of plasmoid-dominated magnetic reconnection in hybrid collisional-collisionless regime
- Zhonghai Zhao,
- Honghai An,
- Yu Xie,
- Zhu Lei,
- Weipeng Yao,
- Wenqiang Yuan,
- Jun Xiong,
- Chen Wang,
- Junjian Ye,
- Zhiyong Xie,
- Zhiheng Fang,
- Anle Lei,
- Wenbing Pei,
- Xiantu He,
- Weimin Zhou,
- Wei Wang,
- Shaoping Zhu,
- Bin Qiao
Affiliations
- Zhonghai Zhao
- Center for Applied Physics and Technology, HEDPS, and SKLNPT, School of Physics, Peking University
- Honghai An
- Shanghai Institute of Laser Plasma, China Academy of Engineering Physics (CAEP)
- Yu Xie
- Center for Applied Physics and Technology, HEDPS, and SKLNPT, School of Physics, Peking University
- Zhu Lei
- Center for Applied Physics and Technology, HEDPS, and SKLNPT, School of Physics, Peking University
- Weipeng Yao
- Center for Applied Physics and Technology, HEDPS, and SKLNPT, School of Physics, Peking University
- Wenqiang Yuan
- Center for Applied Physics and Technology, HEDPS, and SKLNPT, School of Physics, Peking University
- Jun Xiong
- Shanghai Institute of Laser Plasma, China Academy of Engineering Physics (CAEP)
- Chen Wang
- Shanghai Institute of Laser Plasma, China Academy of Engineering Physics (CAEP)
- Junjian Ye
- Shanghai Institute of Laser Plasma, China Academy of Engineering Physics (CAEP)
- Zhiyong Xie
- Shanghai Institute of Laser Plasma, China Academy of Engineering Physics (CAEP)
- Zhiheng Fang
- Shanghai Institute of Laser Plasma, China Academy of Engineering Physics (CAEP)
- Anle Lei
- Shanghai Institute of Laser Plasma, China Academy of Engineering Physics (CAEP)
- Wenbing Pei
- Shanghai Institute of Laser Plasma, China Academy of Engineering Physics (CAEP)
- Xiantu He
- Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics
- Weimin Zhou
- Science and Technology on Plasma Physics Laboratory, Research Center of Laser Fusion, China Academy of Engineering Physics (CAEP)
- Wei Wang
- Shanghai Institute of Laser Plasma, China Academy of Engineering Physics (CAEP)
- Shaoping Zhu
- Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics
- Bin Qiao
- Center for Applied Physics and Technology, HEDPS, and SKLNPT, School of Physics, Peking University
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s42005-022-01026-7
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 5,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 11
Abstract
Magnetic reconnection drives the ejection of plasmas during solar flares through changes in the magnetic fields. Here, the authors use a laboratory-based experiment to create magnetic reconnection in a regime in which the plasma on one side of the reconnection is in a strongly collisional state, while it is weakly-collisional or collisionless on the other.
