Particle-in-cell simulations of collisionless shock formation via head-on merging of two laboratory supersonic plasma jets

C. Thoma, D. R. Welch, S. C. Hsu

We describe numerical simulations, using the particle-in-cell (PIC) and hybrid-PIC code Lsp [T. P. Hughes et al., Phys. Rev. ST Accel. Beams 2, 110401 (1999)], of the head-on mergi…