Plasmoid Ejection and Secondary Current Sheet Generation from Magnetic Reconnection in Laser-plasma Interaction

Funded by NSFC,MOST and CAS,the teams led by Prof.Li Yutong of Beijing National Laboratory of Condensed Matter Physics,Institute of Physics,CAS,Prof.Zhang Jie of Key Laboratory for Laser Plasmas and Department of Physics,Shanghai Jiaotong University and Prof.Zhao Gang of Key Laboratory of Optical Astronomy,National Astronomical Observatories,CAS,obtained important breakthrough in their research,and the findings is published on Phys.Rev.Lett,recently. Reconnection of the self-generated magnetic fields in laser-plasma interaction was first investigated experimentally by Nilson et al.[Phys.Rev.Lett.97,255001(2006)]by shining two laser pulses a distance