Plasma jet experiments in vacuum and in ambient medium using high energy lasers

B. Loupias, E. Falize, C. D. Gregory, O. Akira, T. VINCI, J. Howe, M. Koenig, N. C. WOOLSEY, N. Ozaki, A. Benuzzi-Mounaix, S. Bouquet, C. Michaut, M. Rabec le Goahec, W. Nazarov, T. Pikuz, A. Ya . Faenov, Y. Aglitskiy, S. Atzeni, A. Schiavi, Y. SakawaH. Takabe, R. Kodam

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Abstract

We present promising experimental results for laboratory astrophysics. These experiments were performed in France at the LULI2000 facility to study jet propagation in vacuum and in Japan at ILE using Gekko XII HIPER Laser for jet evolution in an ambient medium. A foam filled cone target was used to generate high velocity plasma jet, and a gas jet nozzle was used to produce the ambient medium. Using visible and X-ray diagnostics, we measured the jet parameters such as: density, temperature and velocity. We were able to determine experimentally the jet dimensionless quantities to compare with astrophysical objects

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication5TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INERTIAL FUSION SCIENCES AND APPLICATIONS (IFSA2007)
EditorsH Azechi, B Hammel, JC Gauthier
Place of PublicationBRISTOL
PublisherIOP Publishing
Pages-
Number of pages4
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DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2008
Event5th International Conference on Inertial Fusion Sciences and Applications(IFSA 2007) - Kobe
Duration: 9 Sept 200714 Sept 2007

Conference

Conference5th International Conference on Inertial Fusion Sciences and Applications(IFSA 2007)
CityKobe
Period9/09/0714/09/07

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