2 papers
physics.ins-det2025
Ponderomotive-expulsion: toward creating an electron-free volume
Smrithan Ravichandran, Teresa Cebriano, José Luis Henares +5
We describe a demonstration of a prototype approach to clear the laser focal volume of free electrons and disable their atomic and molecular sources. Employing two temporally separ…
physics.plasm-ph2019
Laboratory evidence of the halting of magnetic reconnection by a weak guide field
S. Bolanos, R. Smets, S. N. Chen +10
Magnetic reconnection occurs when two plasmas having co-planar but anti-parallel magnetic fields meet. At the contact point, the field is locally annihilated and the magnetic energ…