Investigating radiatively driven, magnetized plasmas with a university scale pulsed-power generator
We present first results from a novel experimental platform that is able to access physics relevant to topics including indirect-drive magnetized inertial confinement fusion, laser energy deposition, various topics in atomic physics, and laboratory astrophysics (for example, the penetration of B-fie...
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2022
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| author | Halliday, JWD Crilly, A Chittenden, J Mancini, RC Merlini, S Rose, S Russell, DR Suttle, LG Valenzuela-Villaseca, V Bland, SN Lebedev, SV |
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| description | We present first results from a novel experimental platform that is able to access physics relevant to topics including indirect-drive magnetized inertial confinement fusion, laser energy deposition, various topics in atomic physics, and laboratory astrophysics (for example, the penetration of B-fields into high energy density plasmas). This platform uses the x rays from a wire array Z-pinch to irradiate a silicon target, producing an outflow of ablated plasma. The ablated plasma expands into ambient, dynamically significant B-fields (∼5 T), which are supported by the current flowing through the Z-pinch. The outflows have a well-defined (quasi-1D) morphology, enabling the study of fundamental processes typically only available in more complex, integrated schemes. Experiments were fielded on the MAGPIE pulsed-power generator (1.4 MA, 240 ns rise time). On this machine, a wire array Z-pinch produces an x-ray pulse carrying a total energy of ∼15 kJ over ∼30 ns. This equates to an average brightness temperature of around 10 eV on-target. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:3f4c3e2c-faec-482e-89d4-a24dbd78fd852022-04-13T15:23:04ZInvestigating radiatively driven, magnetized plasmas with a university scale pulsed-power generatorJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:3f4c3e2c-faec-482e-89d4-a24dbd78fd85EnglishSymplectic ElementsAIP Publishing2022Halliday, JWDCrilly, AChittenden, JMancini, RCMerlini, SRose, SRussell, DRSuttle, LGValenzuela-Villaseca, VBland, SNLebedev, SVWe present first results from a novel experimental platform that is able to access physics relevant to topics including indirect-drive magnetized inertial confinement fusion, laser energy deposition, various topics in atomic physics, and laboratory astrophysics (for example, the penetration of B-fields into high energy density plasmas). This platform uses the x rays from a wire array Z-pinch to irradiate a silicon target, producing an outflow of ablated plasma. The ablated plasma expands into ambient, dynamically significant B-fields (∼5 T), which are supported by the current flowing through the Z-pinch. The outflows have a well-defined (quasi-1D) morphology, enabling the study of fundamental processes typically only available in more complex, integrated schemes. Experiments were fielded on the MAGPIE pulsed-power generator (1.4 MA, 240 ns rise time). On this machine, a wire array Z-pinch produces an x-ray pulse carrying a total energy of ∼15 kJ over ∼30 ns. This equates to an average brightness temperature of around 10 eV on-target. |
| spellingShingle | Halliday, JWD Crilly, A Chittenden, J Mancini, RC Merlini, S Rose, S Russell, DR Suttle, LG Valenzuela-Villaseca, V Bland, SN Lebedev, SV Investigating radiatively driven, magnetized plasmas with a university scale pulsed-power generator |
| title | Investigating radiatively driven, magnetized plasmas with a university scale pulsed-power generator |
| title_full | Investigating radiatively driven, magnetized plasmas with a university scale pulsed-power generator |
| title_fullStr | Investigating radiatively driven, magnetized plasmas with a university scale pulsed-power generator |
| title_full_unstemmed | Investigating radiatively driven, magnetized plasmas with a university scale pulsed-power generator |
| title_short | Investigating radiatively driven, magnetized plasmas with a university scale pulsed-power generator |
| title_sort | investigating radiatively driven magnetized plasmas with a university scale pulsed power generator |
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