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Dr Francisco Suzuki-Vidal

Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Physics

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Blackett LaboratorySouth Kensington Campus

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Publications

Citation

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@article{Hare:2018:10.1063/1.5016280,
author = {Hare, JD and Suttle, LG and Lebedev, SV and Loureiro, NF and Ciardi, A and Chittenden, JP and Clayson, T and Eardley, SJ and Garcia, C and Halliday, JWD and Robinson, T and Smith, RA and Stuart, N and Suzuki-Vidal, F and Tubman, ER},
doi = {10.1063/1.5016280},
journal = {Physics of Plasmas},
title = {An Experimental Platform for Pulsed-Power Driven Magnetic Reconnection},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.5016280},
volume = {25},
year = {2018}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - We describe a versatile pulsed-power driven platform for magneticreconnection experiments, based on exploding wire arrays driven in parallel[Suttle, L. G. et al. PRL, 116, 225001]. This platform produces inherentlymagnetised plasma flows for the duration of the generator current pulse (250ns), resulting in a long-lasting reconnection layer. The layer exists for longenough to allow evolution of complex processes such as plasmoid formation andmovement to be diagnosed by a suite of high spatial and temporal resolutionlaser-based diagnostics. We can access a wide range of magnetic reconnectionregimes by changing the wire material or moving the electrodes inside the wirearrays. We present results with aluminium and carbon wires, in which theparameters of the inflows and the layer which forms are significantlydifferent. By moving the electrodes inside the wire arrays, we change howstrongly the inflows are driven. This enables us to study both symmetricreconnection in a range of different regimes, and asymmetric reconnection.
AU  - Hare,JD
AU  - Suttle,LG
AU  - Lebedev,SV
AU  - Loureiro,NF
AU  - Ciardi,A
AU  - Chittenden,JP
AU  - Clayson,T
AU  - Eardley,SJ
AU  - Garcia,C
AU  - Halliday,JWD
AU  - Robinson,T
AU  - Smith,RA
AU  - Stuart,N
AU  - Suzuki-Vidal,F
AU  - Tubman,ER
DO  - 10.1063/1.5016280
PY  - 2018///
SN  - 1070-664X
TI  - An Experimental Platform for Pulsed-Power Driven Magnetic Reconnection
T2  - Physics of Plasmas
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.5016280
UR  - http://arxiv.org/abs/1711.06534v2
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/54736
VL  - 25
ER  -
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