Observation of magnetized soliton remnants in the wake of intense laser pulse propagation through plasmas

Romagnani, L.*; Bigongiari, A.*; Kar, S.*; Bulanov, S. V.; Cecchetti, C. A.*; Esirkepov, T. Z.; Galimberti, M.*; Jung, R.*; Liseykina, T. V.*; Osterholz, J.*; et al.

Physical Review Letters, 105(17), p.175002_1 - 175002_4, 2010/10

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.175002

Slowly evolving, regularly spaced patterns have been observed in proton projection images of plasma channels drilled by intense laser pulses propagating in an ionized gas jet. The analysis suggests the formation of rows of magnetized soliton remnants, with a quasistatic magnetic field associated with vortex like electron currents resembling those of magnetic vortices.