Physics
Scientific paper
May 2010
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010aas...21630108k&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #216, #301.08; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 41, p.846
Physics
Scientific paper
High Energy Density Physics is the focus of research at the Nevada Terawatt Facility (NTF) and provide a diverse array of experiments which emulate astrophysical plasmas. The NTF consists of a 1 MA, 2 TW Z-pinch, achieving 350 shots a year, and a 50 TW, 350 fs, one micron glass laser. Experiments are undertaken in three ways: Z-pinch only, Z-pinch coupled with laser and laser only. Our facility generates Terawatt x-ray bursts, Megagauss magnetic fields, and investigates magnetized laser plasmas, including astrophysical like plasmas. Plasma diagnostics include a multiframe laser probing, optical and x-ray imaging, particle diagnostics, and x-ray spectroscopy. Wire array pinch experiments show significant structure due to the magnetic Rayleigh-Taylor instability. Both laboratory and astrophysical plasmas interacting with magnetic fields are subject magnetic Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities. These are modeled with nonlinear hydrodynamic modeling capable of describing a wide range of instabilities in high beta plasmas on scales of an ion Larmor radius.
* Work supported by the US Department of Energy under Grant No. DE-FC52-06NA27616 at UNR
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