Study of Thermal Transport in Low-Beta Laser-Produced Plasmas
Abstract
Collective Thomson-scattering experiments were used at the Omega Laser Facility to measure the heat-wave propagation in plasmas where an external magnetic field was scaled to 36 T in a 2-mm-diam gas-jet plasma. At the highest fields, the magnetic-field pressure was equal to the plasma pressure (β ~ 1). These results are being used to study the limitations of thermal-transport models used in current hydrodynamic codes. Initial experimental and simulation results will be presented.
This material is based upon work supported by the Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration under Award Number DE-NA0003856.- Publication:
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APS Division of Plasma Physics Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- 2020
- Bibcode:
- 2020APS..DPPB07006B