1. Rotating plasma disks in dense Z-pinch experiments
- Author
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Roland Smith, M. Bennett, R. P. Drake, Francisco Suzuki-Vidal, M. Bocchi, S. Patankar, Eric G. Blackman, Geoffrey Hall, Andrea Ciardi, Sergey Lebedev, Adam Frank, Jack Hare, J. P. Chittenden, Guy Burdiak, George Swadling, and Lee Suttle
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Physics ,Scattering ,Thomson scattering ,Z-pinch ,Electron temperature ,Plasma diagnostics ,Plasma ,Electron ,Atomic physics ,Ion - Abstract
We present data from the first z-pinch experiments aiming to simulate aspects of accretion disk physics in the laboratory. Using off axis ablation flows from a wire array z-pinch we demonstrate the formation of a hollow disk structure that rotates at 60 kms−1 for 150 ns. By analysing the Thomson scattered spectrum we make estimates for the ion and electron temperatures as Ti ∼ 60 eV and ZTe ∼ 150 to 200 eV.
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- 2014