Laser-produced magnetic-Rayleigh-Taylor unstable plasma slabs in a 20 T magnetic field
Résumé
Magnetized laser-produced plasmas are central to many novel laboratory astrophysics and inertial
confinement fusion studies, as well as in industrial applications. Here we provide the first complete
description of the three-dimensional dynamics of a laser-driven plasma plume expanding in a 20 T
transverse magnetic field. The plasma is collimated by the magnetic field into a slender, rapidly elongating
slab, whose plasma-vacuum interface is unstable to the growth of the “classical,” fluidlike magnetized
Rayleigh-Taylor instability.
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