Mega-Gauss Plasma Jet Creation Using a Ring of Laser Beams
arXiv:2607.05746 · doi:10.3847/2041-8213/ab07bd
Abstract
Using 20 OMEGA laser beams at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester, to irradiate a flat plastic target in a hollow ring configuration, we created supersonic cylindrical stable plasma jets with self-generated megagauss magnetic fields extending out to > 4 mm. These well-collimated magnetized jets possess a number of distinct and novel properties that will allow us to study the dynamics, physical processes and scaling properties of astrophysical jets not feasible with other laboratory settings. The dimensionless parameters of these laboratory jets fall in the same regime as those of YSO jets. They will also provide new versatile laser-based platforms to study magnetized shocks, shear flows and other plasma processes under controllable conditions.
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