Nature Communications (Apr 2018)

Relativistic magnetic reconnection driven by a laser interacting with a micro-scale plasma slab

  • Longqing Yi,
  • Baifei Shen,
  • Alexander Pukhov,
  • Tünde Fülöp

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04065-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Plasma releases magnetic energy by magnetic reconnection but the clear evidence of this phenomenon in relativistic regime is still lacking. Here the authors present a scheme for laboratory observation of the relativistic magnetic reconnection driven by laser-produced energetic electrons in the plasma.