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most citedBiermann Battery Magnetic Fields in ICF Capsules: Total Magnetic Flux Generation

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physics.plasm-ph2026

Measurements of Laser-Driven Plasma Expansion into Hohlraum-Relevant Background Gas

S. Hilsabeck, S. Dannhoff, C. A. Walsh +3

Experiments at the OMEGA EP laser facility were designed and executed to study plasma expansion into hohlraum-relevant gas fills (0.3-0.6 mg/cc of helium), providing a surrogate pl…

physics.plasm-ph2026

Evolution of laser-driven magnetic fields from proton tomography

J. Griff-McMahon, V. Valenzuela-Villaseca, C. A. Walsh +9

Self-generated magnetic fields are commonly produced in high-power laser-plasma interactions. These fields can inhibit plasma heat-flow which makes them important in inertial fusio…

physics.plasm-ph2025

Structure of self-generated magnetic fields in laser-solid interaction from proton tomography

Jesse Griff-McMahon, Christopher A. Walsh, Vicente Valenzuela-Villaseca +9

Strong magnetic fields are naturally self-generated in high-power, laser-solid interactions through the Biermann-battery mechanism. This work experimentally characterizes the 3D lo…

physics.plasm-ph2024

Kinetic Corrections to Heat-flow and Nernst advection for Laser Heated Plasmas

Chris Walsh, Mark Sherlock

Reduced models for approximating the impact of kinetic electron behavior on the transport of thermal energy and magnetic field are investigated. The thermal flux limiter has improv…

physics.plasm-ph2023

Measurements of Extended Magnetic Fields in Laser-Solid Interaction

J. Griff-McMahon, S. Malko, V. Valenzuela-Villaseca +5

Magnetic fields generated from a laser-foil interaction are measured with high fidelity using a proton radiography scheme with in situ x-ray fiducials. In contrast to prior finding…

physics.plasm-ph2021★ 28 cited

Biermann Battery Magnetic Fields in ICF Capsules: Total Magnetic Flux Generation

Christopher Walsh, Dan Clark

This paper focuses on the process of magnetic flux generation in ICF implosions. Hot-spots are shown to be dominated by fields generated during stagnation, when the temperature and…

physics.plasm-ph2021

Updated Magnetized Transport Coefficients: Impact on Laser-Plasmas with Self-Generated or Applied Magnetic Fields

Christopher Walsh, James Sadler, Jonathan Davies

Errors in the Epperlein & Haines [PoF (1986)] transport coefficients were recently found at low electron magnetizations, with new magnetic transport coefficients proposed simultane…