Imperial College London
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Professor Roland A Smith

Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Physics

Professor of Laser Physics
 
 
 
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+44 (0)20 7594 7866r.a.smith Website

 
 
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Location

 

745Blackett LaboratorySouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

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@article{Hare:2017:10.1063/1.4986012,
author = {Hare, JD and Lebedev, SV and Suttle, LG and Loureiro, NF and Ciardi, A and Burdiak, GC and Chittenden, JP and Clayson, T and Eardley, SJ and Garcia, C and Halliday, JWD and Niasse, N and Robinson, T and Smith, RA and Stuart, N and Suzuki-Vidal, F and Swadling, GF and Ma, J and Wu, J},
doi = {10.1063/1.4986012},
journal = {Physics of Plasmas},
title = {Formation and structure of a current sheet in pulsed-power driven magnetic reconnection experiments},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4986012},
volume = {24},
year = {2017}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - We describe magnetic reconnection experiments using a new, pulsed-powerdriven experimental platform in which the inflows are super-sonic butsub-Alfv\'enic.The intrinsically magnetised plasma flows are long lasting,producing a well-defined reconnection layer that persists over manyhydrodynamic time scales.The layer is diagnosed using a suite of highresolution laser based diagnostics which provide measurements of the electrondensity, reconnecting magnetic field, inflow and outflow velocities and theelectron and ion temperatures.Using these measurements we observe a balancebetween the power flow into and out of the layer, and we find that the heatingrates for the electrons and ions are significantly in excess of the classicalpredictions. The formation of plasmoids is observed in laser interferometry andoptical self-emission, and the magnetic O-point structure of these plasmoids isconfirmed using magnetic probes.
AU  - Hare,JD
AU  - Lebedev,SV
AU  - Suttle,LG
AU  - Loureiro,NF
AU  - Ciardi,A
AU  - Burdiak,GC
AU  - Chittenden,JP
AU  - Clayson,T
AU  - Eardley,SJ
AU  - Garcia,C
AU  - Halliday,JWD
AU  - Niasse,N
AU  - Robinson,T
AU  - Smith,RA
AU  - Stuart,N
AU  - Suzuki-Vidal,F
AU  - Swadling,GF
AU  - Ma,J
AU  - Wu,J
DO  - 10.1063/1.4986012
PY  - 2017///
SN  - 1070-664X
TI  - Formation and structure of a current sheet in pulsed-power driven magnetic reconnection experiments
T2  - Physics of Plasmas
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4986012
UR  - http://arxiv.org/abs/1705.10594v2
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/52202
VL  - 24
ER  -
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