supported by the Science Challenge Project(No.TZ2016005);the National Basic Research Program of China(No.2013CBA01503);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.10905004,11220101002,and11622323);the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities
Laser-driven magnetic reconnection(LDMR) occurring with self-generated B fields has been experimentally and theoretically studied extensively, where strong B fields of more than megagauss are spontaneously generated i...
supported by the Science Challenge Project(No.TZ2016005);the National Basic Research Program of China(No.2013CBA01503);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.10905004,11220101002,and11622323);the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities
We present laboratory measurement and theoretical analysis of silicon K-shell lines in plasmas produced by Shenguang II laser facility, and discuss the application of line ratios to diagnose the electron density and t...
supported by the National Basic Research Program of China(Grant No.2013CBA01500);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.11421064,and 11220101002);a Leverhulme Trust Research Project Grant at University of Strathclyde
The process of fast magnetic reconnection driven by intense ultra-short laser pulses in underdense plasma is investigated by particle-in-cell simulations. In the wakefield of such laser pulses, quasi-static magnetic f...
Project supported by the National Basic Research Program of China(Grant No.2013 CBA01501/3);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.11503041,11135012,11375262,11573040,11574390,and 11220101002);China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(Grant No.2015M571124)
A counter-streaming flow system is a test-bed to investigate the astrophysical collisionless shock(CS) formation in the laboratory. Electrostatic/electromagnetic instabilities, competitively growing in the system an...
Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.11074297,11674146,and 11220101002);the National Basic Research Program of China(Grant No.2013CBA01500
The filamentation instability was observed in the interaction of two counter-streaming laser ablated plasma flows, which were supersonic, collisionless, and also closely relevant to astrophysical conditions. The plasm...
supported by the National Basic Research Program of China(Grant No.2013CBA01500);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.11421064,11220101002,11129503 and 11135012)
We present the particle-in-cell(PIC) simulation results of the interaction of a high-energy lepton plasma flow with background electron-proton plasma and focus on the acceleration processes of the protons. It is found...
supported by National Basic Research Program of China (grant nos. 2013CBA01500 and 2014CB339801);National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant nos. 11121504, 11205100, 11220101002 and 11135012);the EPSRC (grant nos. EP/J003832/1 and EP/L001357/1);the Swedish Research Council
The first experimental measurements of intense(~7 × 1019 W cm-2) laser-driven terahertz(THz) radiation from a solid target which is preheated by an intense pulse of laser-accelerated protons is reported. The total e...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.11135012,10925421,11375262 and 11220101002);the National Basic Research Program of China(Grant No.2013CBA01501)
Interactions of two counter-streaming plasmas driven by high power laser pulses are studied on Shenguang II laser facility.Filamentary structures were observed in the interaction region after the electrostatic shockwa...