Magnetic field generation in a laser-irradiated thin collisionless plasma target by return current electrons carrying orbital angular momentum

Magnetized high energy density physics offers new opportunities for observing magnetic field-related physics for the first time in the laser–plasma context. We focus on one such phenomenon, which is the ability of a laser-irradiated magnetized plasma to amplify a seed magnetic field. We performed a...

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Main Authors: Y Shi, K Weichman, R J Kingham, A V Arefiev
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2020-01-01
Series:New Journal of Physics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/ab9ce8