Non-thermal electron acceleration from magnetically driven reconnection in a laboratory plasma
Abraham Chien, Lan Gao, S. Zhang, Hantao Ji, Eric G. Blackman, W. Daughton, Adam Stanier, A. Lê, Fan Guo, Russ Follett, Hui Chen, G. Fiksel, Gabriel Petrişor Bleotu, R. Cauble, S. N. Chen, A. Fazzini, Kirk Flippo, Omar French, D. H. Froula, J. Fuchs, Shinsuke Fujioka, Kenneth Hill, Sallee Klein, Carolyn Kuranz, P.M. Nilson, Alexander Rasmus, Ryunosuke Takizawa
Topics & Concepts
PhysicsMagnetic reconnectionParticle accelerationBetatronPlasmaElectric fieldAccelerationElectronComputational physicsMagnetic fieldFermi accelerationMagnetic energyDebye lengthAtomic physicsClassical mechanicsNuclear physicsMagnetizationQuantum mechanicsSolar and Space Plasma DynamicsIonosphere and magnetosphere dynamicsLaser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics