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Radiative cooling effects on reverse shocks formed by magnetised supersonic plasma flows
S. Merlini, J. D. Hare, G. C. Burdiak +15
We study the structure of reverse shocks formed by the collision of supersonic, magnetised plasma flows driven by an inverse (or exploding) wire array with a planar conducting obst…
Time-resolved velocity and ion sound speed measurements from simultaneous bow shock imaging and inductive probe measurements
R. Datta, D. R. Russell, T. Clayson +3
We present a technique to measure the time-resolved velocity and ion sound speed in magnetized, supersonic high-energy-density plasmas. We place an inductive (`b-dot') probe in a s…
Perpendicular subcritical shock structure in a collisional plasma experiment
D. R. Russell, G. C. Burdiak, J. J. Carroll-Nellenback +13
We present a study of perpendicular subcritical shocks in a collisional laboratory plasma. Shocks are produced by placing obstacles into the super-magnetosonic outflow from an inve…
Formation and Structure of a Current Sheet in Pulsed-Power Driven Magnetic Reconnection Experiments
J. D. Hare, S. V. Lebedev, L. G. Suttle +16
We describe magnetic reconnection experiments using a new, pulsed-power driven experimental platform in which the inflows are super-sonic but sub-Alfvénic.The intrinsically magneti…
Counter-propagating radiative shock experiments on the Orion laser and the formation of radiative precursors
T. Clayson, F. Suzuki-Vidal, S. V. Lebedev +18
We present results from new experiments to study the dynamics of radiative shocks, reverse shocks and radiative precursors. Laser ablation of a solid piston by the Orion high-power…