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Pulsed-power driven HED plasma experiments at the MAGPIE facility

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Abstract

We present results from recent high energy density plasma experiments conducted at the MAGPIE pulsed-power generator (1.4 MA peak-current, 240 ns rise-time). The plasmas for these experiments are formed by using either ablation of targets by X-ray pulses generated by wire array z-pinch implosions or by current-driven ablation of wires in inverse wire arrays. Recent experimental campaigns have been focused on studies of cylindrically converging plasma flows (ne~ 1018 cm-3, vr ~ 20-40 km/s) in the presence of dynamically significant magnetic fields (B ~ 1 T), formation of differentially rotating plasmas, and the development of turbulence in collisions of counter-streaming supersonic plasma flows.

Presenters

  • Sergey V Lebedev

    Imperial College London

Authors

  • Sergey V Lebedev

    Imperial College London

  • Katherine Marrow

    Imperial College London

  • Stefano Merlini

    Imperial College London

  • Thomas R Mundy

    Imperial College London

  • Lee G Suttle

    Imperial College London

  • Jergus Strucka

    Imperial College London

  • Nikita Chaturvedi

    Imperial College London

  • Vicente Valenzuela-Villaseca

    Princeton University

  • Simon N Bland

    Blackett Lab

  • Jeremy P Chittenden

    Imperial College London

  • Aurora Uras

    Imperial College London