Experiments to investigate the effects of radiative cooling on plasma jet collimation
Plasma Physics
2010-11-04 v1
Abstract
Preliminary experiments have been performed to investigate the effects of radiative cooling on plasma jets. Thin (3 um - 5 um) conical shells were irradiated with an intense laser, driving jets with velocities > 100 km/s. Through use of different target materials - aluminium, copper and gold - the degree of radiative losses was altered, and their importance for jet collimation investigated. A number of temporally resoved optical diagnostics was used, providing information about the jet evolution. Gold jets were seen to be narrower than those from copper targets, while aluminium targets produced the least collimated flows.
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@article{arxiv.1011.0891,
title = {Experiments to investigate the effects of radiative cooling on plasma jet collimation},
author = {C. D. Gregory and A. Diziere and H. Aoki and M. Besio and S. Bouquet and E. Falize and T. Ide and B. Loupias and C. Michaut and T. Morita and S. A. Pikuz and A. Ravasio and Y. Kuramtisu and Y. Sakawa and H. Takabe and H. Tanji and N. C. Woolsey and M. Koenig},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1011.0891},
year = {2010}
}
Comments
Presented at the 8th High Energy Density Laboratory Astrophysics conference, March 15th - 18th, Caltech, CA, USA