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Exploring the Physics of the Plasma Liner Experiment: A Multi-dimensional Study with FLASH, OSIRIS, and HELIOS
E. C. Hansen, P. Farmakis, D. Michta +5
The Plasma Liner Experiment (PLX) at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) is a platform that seeks to achieve fusion via the Plasma-Jet-Driven Magneto-Inertial Fusion (PJMIF) conc…
Affordable, manageable, practical, and scalable (AMPS) high-yield and high-gain inertial fusion
Andrew Alexander, Laura Robin Benedetti, Indrani Bhattacharyya +63
High-yield inertial fusion offers a transformative path to affordable clean firm power and advanced defense capabilities. Recent milestones at large facilities, particularly the Na…
Formation and Study of a Spherical Plasma Liner for Plasma-Jet-Driven Magneto-Inertial Fusion
A. L. LaJoie, F. Chu, A. Brown +9
Plasma-jet-driven magneto-inertial fusion (PJMIF) is an alternative approach to controlled nuclear fusion which aims to utilize a line-replaceable dense plasma liner as a repetitiv…
Automated Estimation of Plasma Temperature and Density from Emission Spectroscopy
Todd A. Oliver, Craig Michoski, Samuel Langendorf +1
This paper introduces a novel approach for automated estimation of plasma temperature and density using emission spectroscopy, integrating Bayesian inference with sophisticated phy…
Characterization of fast magnetosonic waves driven by compact toroid plasma injection along a magnetic field
F. Chu, S. J. Langendorf, J. Olson +5
Magnetosonic waves are low-frequency, linearly polarized magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves commonly found in space, responsible for many well-known features, such as heating of the s…
An investigation of shock formation versus shock mitigation of colliding plasma jets
Petr Cagas, James Juno, Ammar Hakim +4
This work studies the interaction between colliding plasma jets to understand regimes in which jet merging results in shock formation versus regimes in which the shock formation is…
Experimental Measurements of Ion Diffusion Coefficients and Heating in a Multi-Ion-Species Plasma Shock
F. Chu, A. L. LaJoie, B. D. Keenan +3
Collisional plasma shocks generated from supersonic flows are an important feature in many astrophysical and laboratory high-energy-density plasmas. Compared to single-ion-species…
Formation of Transient High- Plasmas in a Magnetized, Weakly Collisional Regime
T. Byvank, D. A. Endrizzi, C. B. Forest +3
We present experimental data providing evidence for the formation of transient (s) plasmas that are simultaneously weakly magnetized (i.e., Hall magnetization parameter…
Experimental characterization of a section of a spherically imploding plasma liner formed by merging hypersonic plasma jets
Kevin Yates, Samuel Langendorf, Scott Hsu +9
We report experimental results on merging of hypersonic plasma jets, which is the fundamental building block for forming spherically imploding plasma liners as a potential standoff…
Observation of Shock-Front Separation in Multi-Ion-Species Collisional Plasma Shocks
Tom Byvank, Samuel J. Langendorf, Carsten Thoma +1
We observe shock-front separation and species-dependent shock widths in multi-ion-species collisional plasma shocks, which are produced by obliquely merging plasma jets of a He/Ar…
Experimental Study of Ion Heating in Obliquely Merging Hypersonic Plasma Jets
Samuel J Langendorf, Kevin C Yates, Scott C Hsu +2
In this experiment, we measure ion temperature evolution of collisional plasma shocks and colliding supersonic plasma flows across a range of species (Ar, Kr, Xe, N), Mach numbers,…
Simulation Study of the Influence of Experimental Variations on the Structure and Quality of Plasma Liners
Wen Shih, Roman Samulyak, Scott C. Hsu +3
Simulation studies of a section of a spherically imploding plasma liner, formed by the merger of six hypersonic plasma jets, have been performed at conditions relevant to the Plasm…
Experimental Measurements of Ion Heating in Collisional Plasma Shocks and Interpenetrating Supersonic Plasma Flows
Samuel J. Langendorf, Kevin C. Yates, Scott C. Hsu +2
We present time-resolved measurements of ion heating due to collisional plasma shocks and interpenetrating supersonic plasma flows, which are formed by the oblique merging of two c…
Magnetized Plasma Target for Plasma-Jet-Driven Magneto-Inertial Fusion
Scott C. Hsu, Samuel J. Langendorf
We identify the desired characteristics and parameters of a beta>1 magnetized plasma, possibly with highly tangled, open field lines, that could be a suitable target to be compress…
Experiment to Form and Characterize a Section of a Spherically Imploding Plasma Liner
S. C. Hsu, S. J. Langendorf, K. C. Yates +13
We describe an experiment to form and characterize a section of a spherically imploding plasma liner by merging six supersonic plasma jets that are launched by newly designed conto…
Semi-analytic model of plasma-jet-driven magneto-inertial fusion
Samuel J. Langendorf, Scott C. Hsu
A semi-analytic model for plasma-jet-driven magneto-inertial fusion is presented. Compressions of a magnetized plasma target by a spherically imploding plasma liner are calculated…