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
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Sergey V Lebedev
Imperial College London
Authors
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Sergey V Lebedev
Imperial College London
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Katherine Marrow
Imperial College London
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Stefano Merlini
Imperial College London
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Thomas R Mundy
Imperial College London
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Lee G Suttle
Imperial College London
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Jergus Strucka
Imperial College London
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Nikita Chaturvedi
Imperial College London
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Vicente Valenzuela-Villaseca
Princeton University
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Simon N Bland
Blackett Lab
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Jeremy P Chittenden
Imperial College London
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Aurora Uras
Imperial College London