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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 and modeling of interspecies ion separation in inertial confinement fusion implosions via imaging x-ray spectroscopy
T. R. Joshi, P. Hakel, S. C. Hsu +9
We report first direct experimental evidence of interspecies ion separation in direct-drive ICF experiments performed at the OMEGA laser facility via spectrally, temporally and spa…
Observation of interspecies ion separation in inertial-confinement-fusion implosions
S. C. Hsu, T. R. Joshi, P. Hakel +9
We report direct experimental evidence of interspecies ion separation in direct-drive, inertial-confinement-fusion experiments on the OMEGA laser facility. These experiments, which…
Laboratory plasma physics experiments using merging supersonic plasma jets
S. C. Hsu, A. L. Moser, E. C. Merritt +8
We describe a laboratory plasma physics experiment at Los Alamos National Laboratory that uses two merging supersonic plasma jets formed and launched by pulsed-power-driven rail gu…
Experimental characterization of the stagnation layer between two obliquely merging supersonic plasma jets
Elizabeth C. Merritt, Auna L. Moser, Scott C. Hsu +2
We present spatially resolved measurements characterizing the stagnation layer between two obliquely merging supersonic plasma jets. Intra-jet collisionality is very high ($λ_{ii}…
Tendency of spherically imploding plasma liners formed by merging plasma jets to evolve toward spherical symmetry
J. T. Cassibry, M. Stanic, S. C. Hsu +2
Three dimensional hydrodynamic simulations have been performed using smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) in order to study the effects of discrete jets on the processes of plasma…
A Proposed Experiment to Study Relaxation Formation of a Spherical Tokamak with a Plasma Center Column
S. C. Hsu, X. Z. Tang
A spherical tokamak (ST) with a plasma center column (PCC) can be formed via driven magnetic relaxation of a screw pinch plasma. An ST-PCC could in principle eliminate many problem…