Updates on the X-Pinch Platform and Faraday Rotation Imaging Diagnostic on the Maize Pulsed Power Facility

Autor: Roland Smith, Nicholas M. Jordan, S. A. Pikuz, Ryan D. McBride, George V. Dowhan, Akash Shah, Lee Suttle, Simon Bland, Sergey Lebedev

Publikováno v: 2021 IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science (ICOPS).

X-pinches, formed by driving intense current through the crossing of 2 or more wires, provide an excellent platform for the study of "micro-pinches" due to their propensity to generate a single micro-pinch at a predetermined location in space (i.e.,

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https://doi.org/10.1109/icops36761.2021.9588619

Two-colour interferometry and Thomson scattering measurements of a plasma gun

Autor: Eleanor Tubman, Lee Suttle, Sergey Lebedev, James M. MacDonald, J. Dranczewski, Jack Halliday, Wojciech Rozmus, Jack Hare, S. N. Bland

We present experimental measurements of a pulsed plasma gun, using two-colour imaging laser interferometry and spatially resolved Thomson scattering. Interferometry measurements give an electron density $n_e\approx2.7\times10^{17}$ cm$^{-3}$ at the c

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http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/69544

Collective optical Thomson scattering in pulsed-power driven high energy density physics experiments (invited)

Autor: S. Merlini, Lee Suttle, J. W. D. Halliday, Jack Hare, Wojciech Rozmus, V. Valenzuela-Villaseca, C. Bruulsema, D. R. Russell, Sergey Lebedev, Eleanor Tubman

Publikováno v: Review of Scientific Instruments. 92:033542

Optical collective Thomson scattering (TS) is used to diagnose magnetized high energy density physics experiments at the Magpie pulsed-power generator at Imperial College London. The system uses an amplified pulse from the second harmonic of a Nd:YAG

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https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0041118

Ion heating and magnetic flux pile-up in a magnetic reconnection experiment with super-Alfvenic plasma inflows

Autor: Thomas Clayson, Lee Suttle, Jeremy Chittenden, Eleanor Tubman, Theodore Lane, Francisco Suzuki-Vidal, J. W. D. Halliday, Jingtan Ma, Nicolas Niasse, Roland Smith, T. Robinson, Sergey Lebedev, Jack Hare, Guy Burdiak, Daniel Russell, Nicholas Stuart, Nuno Loureiro, Andrea Ciardi

Publikováno v: Physics of Plasmas
Physics of Plasmas, American Institute of Physics, 2018, 25 (4), pp.042108. ⟨10.1063/1.5023664⟩
arXiv

This work presents a magnetic reconnection experiment in which the kinetic, magnetic, and thermal properties of the plasma each play an important role in the overall energy balance and structure of the generated reconnection layer. Magnetic reconnect

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Formation and structure of a current sheet in pulsed-power driven magnetic reconnection experiments

Autor: Jingtan Ma, G. C. Burdiak, George Swadling, Jack Halliday, Roland Smith, C. Garcia, Jack Hare, Sergey Lebedev, Nicholas Niasse, Nuno Loureiro, Nicholas Stuart, Andrea Ciardi, Lee Suttle, Jian Wu, S. J. Eardley, Thomas Clayson, T. Robinson, Francisco Suzuki-Vidal, Jeremy Chittenden

Publikováno v: Physics of Plasmas
Physics of Plasmas, 2017, 24 (10), pp.102703. ⟨10.1063/1.4986012⟩
Physics of Plasmas, American Institute of Physics, 2017, 24 (10), pp.102703. ⟨10.1063/1.4986012⟩
arXiv

We describe magnetic reconnection experiments using a new, pulsed-power driven experimental platform in which the inflows are super-sonic but sub-Alfvénic. The intrinsically magnetised plasma flows are long lasting, producing a well-defined reconnec

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https://hal.science/hal-02238173