Recent Magnetised High Energy Density Experiments on the MAGPIE Pulsed Power Generator

POSTER

Abstract

We present an overview of recent work on the MAGPIE pulsed power generator at Imperial College London. We use a suite of spatially and temporally resolved laser based diagnostics, including interferometry, Thomson scattering and Faraday rotation imaging to diagnose intrinsically magnetised, high energy density, supersonic plasma flows generated by the ablation of plasma from wire arrays in a range of geometries. We study a variety of astrophysically relevant phenomena such as hypersonic jets, rotating plasmas, magnetic reconnection, magnetised turbulence and the formation of bow shocks around magnetised and unmagnetised obstacles.


Presenters

  • Sergey V Lebedev

    Imperial College London, Imperial College London, Multi-university Center for Pulsed Power-Driven High Energy Science

Authors

  • Sergey V Lebedev

    Imperial College London, Imperial College London, Multi-university Center for Pulsed Power-Driven High Energy Science

  • Thomas Clayson

    Imperial College London

  • Samuel Eardley

    Imperial College London

  • Jack WD Halliday

    Imperial College London, Imperial College London, Multi-university Center for Pulsed Power-Driven High Energy Science

  • Jack Davies Hare

    Imperial College London, Imperial College London, Multi-university Center for Pulsed Power-Driven High Energy Science, Imperial College London, Imperial College London

  • George Rowland

    Imperial College London

  • Daniel R. Russell

    Imperial College London, Imperial College London, Multi-university Center for Pulsed Power-Driven High Energy Science

  • Roland A Smith

    Imperial College London

  • Nicholas Stuart

    Imperial College London

  • Francisco Suzuki-Vidal

    Imperial College London, Imperial College London, Multi-university Center for Pulsed Power-Driven High Energy Science

  • Lee G. Suttle

    Imperial College London, Imperial College London, Multi-university Center for Pulsed Power-Driven High Energy Science

  • Eleanor R Tubman

    Imperial College London, Imperial College London, Multi-university Center for Pulsed Power-Driven High Energy Science

  • Vicente Valenzuela-Villaseca

    Pontif Univ Catolica de Chile, Imperial College London, Pontif Univ Catolica de Chile

  • Andrea Ciardi

    CNRS, UMR 8112, LERMA, F-75005 Paris, France

  • Nuno F Loureiro

    Massachusetts Inst of Tech-MIT, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Plasma Science and Fusion Center, MIT, Cambridge, USA