Nature Communications (Apr 2019)
Supersonic plasma turbulence in the laboratory
- T. G. White,
- M. T. Oliver,
- P. Mabey,
- M. Kühn-Kauffeldt,
- A. F. A. Bott,
- L. N. K. Döhl,
- A. R. Bell,
- R. Bingham,
- R. Clarke,
- J. Foster,
- G. Giacinti,
- P. Graham,
- R. Heathcote,
- M. Koenig,
- Y. Kuramitsu,
- D. Q. Lamb,
- J. Meinecke,
- Th. Michel,
- F. Miniati,
- M. Notley,
- B. Reville,
- D. Ryu,
- S. Sarkar,
- Y. Sakawa,
- M. P. Selwood,
- J. Squire,
- R. H. H. Scott,
- P. Tzeferacos,
- N. Woolsey,
- A. A. Schekochihin,
- G. Gregori
Affiliations
- T. G. White
- Department of Physics, University of Oxford
- M. T. Oliver
- Department of Physics, University of Oxford
- P. Mabey
- Department of Physics, University of Oxford
- M. Kühn-Kauffeldt
- Universität der Bundeswehr München
- A. F. A. Bott
- Department of Physics, University of Oxford
- L. N. K. Döhl
- York Plasma Institute, Department of Physics, University of York
- A. R. Bell
- Department of Physics, University of Oxford
- R. Bingham
- Central Laser Facility, STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
- R. Clarke
- Central Laser Facility, STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
- J. Foster
- AWE, Aldermaston
- G. Giacinti
- Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik
- P. Graham
- AWE, Aldermaston
- R. Heathcote
- Central Laser Facility, STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
- M. Koenig
- LULI—CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, CEA: Université Paris-Saclay; UPMC Univ Paris 06: Sorbonne Universitiés
- Y. Kuramitsu
- Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University
- D. Q. Lamb
- Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Chicago
- J. Meinecke
- Department of Physics, University of Oxford
- Th. Michel
- LULI—CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, CEA: Université Paris-Saclay; UPMC Univ Paris 06: Sorbonne Universitiés
- F. Miniati
- Department of Physics, University of Oxford
- M. Notley
- Central Laser Facility, STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
- B. Reville
- School of Mathematics and Physics, Queens University Belfast
- D. Ryu
- Department of Physics, School of Natural Sciences, UNIST
- S. Sarkar
- Department of Physics, University of Oxford
- Y. Sakawa
- Institute of Laser Engineering
- M. P. Selwood
- Central Laser Facility, STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
- J. Squire
- Theoretical Astrophysics, 350-17, California Institute of Technology
- R. H. H. Scott
- Central Laser Facility, STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
- P. Tzeferacos
- Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Chicago
- N. Woolsey
- York Plasma Institute, Department of Physics, University of York
- A. A. Schekochihin
- Department of Physics, University of Oxford
- G. Gregori
- Department of Physics, University of Oxford
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09498-y
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 10,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 6
Abstract
Supersonic turbulence is relevant to astrophysical plasmas with their study mostly limited to numerical simulations. Here the authors demonstrate supersonic turbulence in collisional high Mach number plasma jets generated in laboratory by using high power lasers.
